"Rapper Boots Riley scores a knockout directing debut with this no-mercy satire, starring a breakout Lakeith Stanfield, that gets all up in your face about race and the media. Summer has found its real fireworks right here."
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Riley has clearly held nothing back and after 25+ years of using his voice and unique point of view in the world of hip-hop, this is as audacious an entry into the world of feature filmmaking as one could possibly make."
Lindsay Bahr, Associated Press
"It works fine as an outrageous comedy, but the perceptive commentary will likely give it staying power. This is the fearless satire that America desperately needs right now."
J.R. Kinnard, Seattle Times
"If Mike Judge's 'Office Space' and Robert Downey Sr.'s 'Putney Swope' hooked up after a night of bingeing on hallucinogens, Marxist theory and the novels of Paul Beatty and Colson Whitehead, the offspring might look something like this."
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
"Riley dramatizes outrageously complex machinations of predatory greed and depraved misrule and offers a passionate, joyous vision of resistance."
Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"If you dig the handmade surrealism of Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry or the antiestablishment weirdness of 'Repo Man,' then this one is undoubtedly for you."
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
"Both Riley and 'Get Out''s Jordan Peele have recreated our world but cracked through with a surreal seam that makes its hidden evils unmissable."
Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic
