Red Rocket (★★★★☆), isn’t the cleverest liar, but he knows how to sprinkle just enough truth on his lies to make them believable.
And if one lie doesn’t work, he always has another, or a ready excuse, a joke, or a compliment, whatever he thinks might ingratiate him with whomever’s on the receiving end of whatever angle he’s working.
Since Mikey is never not working an angle.Filmmaker Sean Baker and co-writer Chris Bergoch — collaborators here and on trans drama Tangerine and Oscar nominee The Florida Project — have a knack for spinning engrossing tales around wily working-class or poor folks hustling along the margins of the American dream.
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