Search results
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.
Smart, funny, and poignant, American Fiction will make you laugh as often as it makes you think. Anchored by a tour de force performance from Jeffrey Wright, writer and first-time director Cord...
- (289)
- Comedy, Drama
- R
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.
- www.rollingstone.com
- TV & Movies
- TV & Movies Reviews
Dec 15, 2023 · MOVIE REVIEW. ‘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...
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...
Feb 1, 2024 · American Fiction review: A sharp satire on Black stereotypes and the white people who love them. Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K Brown are marvellous in Cord Jefferson’s touching, funny dramedy...
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,...
Dec 22, 2023 · American Fiction: Directed by Cord Jefferson. With Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander. A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
Dec 12, 2023 · American Fiction is a film about a lie of a story that taps into greater truths. Jeffrey Wright is spectacular as a writer who becomes increasingly disillusioned with the world of publishing.
Sep 11, 2023 · “American Fiction” addresses that comically, having Monk occasionally turn on the television and be met by a barrage of dramatic Black stories of pain, violence and despair.