Boots Riley enjoyed a prolific career as a rapper, producer, and activist long before he burst onto the filmmaking scene with Sorry to Bother You. The multihyphenate paired a scathing rant against commercialism with a surrealist commentary on codeswitching, and effectively reintroduced himself to the world as a writer-director for the ages. Riley’s always been pretty vocal about exploitation, capitalism, and even the hypocrisy of (super)hero worship. It’s his latest on-screen project, I’m A Virgo, that allows him to unpack those themes in long form.

The dichotomy of the world’s most well-known artists is that everybody knows who they are but nobody really knows anything beyond what they put into their art. This is true of Hideo Kojima, the famed creator of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding.

Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds, a new documentary from Glen Milner, seeks to solve that problem for the game developer. Premiering at the 2023 Tribeca Festival, Connecting Worlds attempts to tell a story of the man and the process behind the art, but fails to draw any meaningful connections between either.