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May 14, 2024 · Recent releases like “American Fiction” and “The American Society of Magical Negroes” have used absurdist humor to examine race. But they have also depicted narrow views of Blackness. By ...
The American Society of Magical Negroes is a 2024 American comedy film starring Justice Smith as a young man who joins a clandestine group of magical African Americans committed to enhancing the lives of white individuals, satirizing the Magical Negro trope.
Mar 28, 2024 · The American Society of Magical Negroes leaves its biggest, most important questions unasked, and its potentially most relevant messages unexpressed. It’s evidence of a lack of courage...
Jan 20, 2024 · “The American Society of Magical Negroes” is a deftly observant fantasy comedy that stays true to its own irreverence. Yet this one, too, has a serious and circumspect artist at its...
Mar 15, 2024 · Kobi Libii’s satirical comedy, “The American Society of Magical Negroes,” opens in an art gallery where people are milling about. A young Black man tries to walk through the crowd ...
Flipping the trope on its head, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES follows a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who...
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- Comedy, Fantasy
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Mar 15, 2024 · But now there's also Kobi Libii's feature debut, The American Society of Magical Negroes, which attempts to skewer it. The comedy writer and performer imagines an underground...
