The rare offering that doesn’t just feel like it’s made by a person but by someone with an eye for visual, a distinctive voice, and a sharp sense of humor.

It does waver at times, but the laughs are always backed by insightful ideas.

His [Juel Taylor] is a richly imagined and visually impressive world, and the laugh-out-loud screenplay he and Tony Rettenmaier wrote fires off joke after joke while paying homage to blaxploitation films of yore.

They Cloned Tyrone may not be the most original movie of the year, but it has enough fun with its influences to get by.