SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

R, 105 minutes. Through today only at Mystic Luxury Cinemas. The absurdist parable set in a dystopian alternate timeline somehow feels entirely plausible, and it hits home. Lakeith Stanfield stars as Cassius Green, a young striver who becomes the figurehead for the struggle between the American dream and human morality. Cassius is a dreamy but unmotivated type. He lives in his uncle’s garage with his uber-cool artist girlfriend, Detroit (Tessa Thompson). But his uncle Sergio (Terry Crews) is breathing down his neck for the rent, and bills don’t pay themselves. In this Oakland, it seems the only jobs available are in marketing and sales. Cassius scams his way into a telemarketing job. It’s a dead-end job, and though some of his co-workers are planning a union bid, Cassius is intrigued by the promise of becoming a “power caller.” He receives a tip from a longtime employee (Danny Glover) to use his “white voice” (dubbed by David Cross) on the calls, and soon, the sales commissions are rolling in, and he’s rocketing upstairs in a golden elevator. — Katie Walsh, Tribune Content Agency

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

1/2 PG-13, 96 minutes. Through tonight only at Madison Art Cinemas. Still playing at Mystic Luxury Cinemas. It’s about as human and interesting as stories get: Three men meet for the first time, and discover they are identical triplets separated at birth. Reunited by chance in 1980, the three teenage siblings — Edward Galland of New Hyde Park, David Kellman of Howard Beach and Robert Shafran of Scarsdale, N.Y. — found they shared not only physical attributes but mannerisms, habits, likes and dislikes. Their heartwarming story and head-spinning similarities turned them into media darlings: — Rafer Guzmán, Newsday