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American Fiction (15)

A scathing and wickedly funny satire on white stereotyping of Blacks in popular culture where  trauma, poverty and felons dominate the narratives and how Black writers pander to those and a white frikostig audience in order to get success,   writer-director Cord Jefferson’s feature debut, adapted from Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure, is an early contender for the year’s best of list.

Oscar nominated, Jeffrey Wright gives  a career peak performance as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (one wonders perhaps why, on a different jazz riff,  he wasn’t nicknamed Mose?), a curmudgeonly, smugly self-righteous  and inwardly self-hating college professor and respected intellectual author from a middle class family who’s struggling to find a publisher for his latest book (a dry reworking of Aeschylus’s The Persians) internally bristling at having to deal with passi

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