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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...
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Dec 15, 2023 · 'American Fiction' review: A great setup with no punchline. The premise of Cord Jefferson's literary satire involves two halves that never meet. By Siddhant Adlakha on December 15, 2023. All...
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Feb 1, 2024 · Sight and Sound. Reviews. American Fiction: Jeffrey Wright shines in this smart racial satire on the American publishing industry. Jeffrey Wright stars as a frustrated novelist who takes advantage of the white literary establishment’s appetite for Black trauma narratives in a bold debut that stretches its central joke a little too thin.
Her novel, “We’s Lives In Da Ghetto,” is as bad as it sounds and has become a New York Times bestseller. “You write what interests white publishers fiending Black trauma porn,” he says ...
Feb 1, 2024 · American Fiction review: Jeffrey Wright gives a knockout performance in this edgy, Oscar-nominated comedy Cord Jefferson marries broad humour with affecting familial dysfunction and biting ...
