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  2. 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.

  3. 93% Tomatometer 288 Reviews 96% Audience Score 1,000+ Verified Ratings AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with...

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  4. 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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  5. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid. 'American Fiction' works by keeping the satire sharp, but giving it a genuine humanity. Full Review |...

  6. 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.

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  7. Sep 9, 2023 · American FictionReview: 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...

  8. Sep 9, 2023 · American Fiction addresses much of it — from Monk’s middle-class upbringing and disdain for popular fiction to the moral valence of capitulating to market forces — with wit and eagerness ...

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