I Love Boosters(2026)

An audacious, fun and maximalist film. It has a very clear thesis that it is unabashedly loud about from the very beginning, and spends the rest of the film synthesizing. Normally, a proselytizing film like this one would feel lecture-ish, but I Love Boosters avoids this pitfall by going all in on absurdism and making itself a visual feast. The costumes are especially astonishing. 

There are clear weaknesses too, namely the underdeveloped and under differentiated characters. When your story is an argument, it pushes your characters towards caricatures. Despite the herculean efforts of a great cast, I didn't think any character here was compelling enough that I'll still remember them in just a few weeks (maybe except for the demon--I want the demon). I know this is an intentional tradeoff that the creator had to make in service of their loud message, but these are flaws nonetheless. 

There is one line from the movie that stuck with me. When Demi Moore was talking about using fashion as her paint brush and people as canvas to create her art, her assistant said to her: 

"I don't think people want to be the art. They want to be the artist." 

This somewhat awkwardly placed line is this story's central thesis, that we need build systems that empower everyone, not just an elite few, and give them the space to create and find meaning. On the other hand, the creator of this film did also spoon-feed this to me, which did not make me feel like an artist. I am aware that a single film cannot do everything. Sometimes you have to beam the deconstructor before using the situational accelerator, but I can't help find a bit of wry irony in that.