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2023
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Dec 15, 2023 · Director Cord Jefferson, in his feature debut, “American Fiction” (based on Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure), unpacks the qualifying characteristics and limitations of mass market white interest in Black stories.
Dec 14, 2023 · Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” is a cagey, cerebral dramedy about a joke that backfires on its author, a stone-faced literature professor named Thelonious Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) who ...
93% Tomatometer 284 Reviews 96% Audience Score 1,000+ Verified Ratings AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing...
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Sep 9, 2023 · ‘American Fiction’ Review: Jeffrey Wright Takes on Narrow Ideas of Black Representation in Sharp Industry Satire. Promising first-time director Cord Jefferson uses a 22-year-old book to poke fun...
Sep 9, 2023 · American Fiction is a clever and charming offering for the next generation of writers facing the same existential questions. Thelonious Ellison ( Jeffrey Wright ) is a middle-aged Black man in...
Dec 15, 2023 · 6 minute read. Jeffrey Wright stars as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison in Cord Jefferson's American Fiction. Courtesy of Orion Pictures. By Stephanie Zacharek. December 15, 2023 4:46 PM EST.
American Fiction specifically looks at the kind of literature that panders to its white audience while providing an unrealistic depiction of the myriad obstacles Black Americans face.
