I Love Boosters, Boots Riley’s absurdist comedy about professional shoplifters, gets its UK cinema release on Friday 30 October, according to Screen Daily, Radio Times and multiple UK listings. The film, already released in the US, follows a group of boosters who target a cutthroat fashion mogul. The cast includes Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonzalez, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle and Demi Moore, according to Radio Times and Watershed listings. Riley, the writer-director behind Sorry to Bother You, returns with another idiosyncratic, anti-capitalist vision, according to Watershed.
A caper that dials it to eleven.
Reviews described the film as a frantic and funny caper, with BrillFilms calling it an entertaining, if very exhausting, fantasy-caper about the fashion business. One Mann’s Movies, in its 30 October news roundup, called it a real surprise of a comedy film, noting that it dials it to 11 in its third act. The plot follows three friends, Corvette played by Palmer, Sade played by Ackie and Mariah played by Paige, boosting goods from a top-end retail outlet run by a fashion mogul played by Moore, according to Joyzine’s London Film Festival review. The film runs 113 minutes and is rated 15 in the UK, according to Watershed.
A UK arrival after a US run.
The Numbers’ release data lists I Love Boosters as released wide in the US on 22 May 2026, with the UK wide release on 30 October and Australia following on 12 November. That staggered pattern means UK audiences are seeing a film that has already built a reputation in the US, for better and worse. For UK cinemagoers, the film is one of the weekend’s most distinctive new arrivals, offering a comedy that is explicitly about class and consumerism rather than a conventional heist. Its ensemble cast gives it a strong draw, even in a crowded Halloween frame.
