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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 ...
AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a...
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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...
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...
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Dec 15, 2023 · ‘American Fiction’ Is a Scathing Satire, a Family Drama, and an Absolute Triumph. Writer-director Cord Jefferson deconstructs how white guilt stifles Black creatives and skewers the publishing...
With a great cast that includes Oscar-nominated turns from Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K. Brown, it's a delightful, sharply-written blending of genres that results in one of the best films of 2023...
Sep 10, 2023 · Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut, “American Fiction,” is a sharp comedy about racial commodification anchored by a terrific Jeffrey Wright. It won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Sep 11, 2023 · Jeffrey Wright stars in 'American Fiction' [review], as a professor who writes a novel about Black life that's dumb — and guaranteed to be a hit.
Mar 1, 2024 · American Fiction is a brilliant satirical drama that shines an inquisitive light on how art from marginalized people is viewed. It’s thought-provoking, heartening, silly, and at times,...
