Category: satire, drama, 3.5/4, Cord Jefferson

• American Fiction (2023)

  

  I recently saw American Fiction and it was good. The directorial debut of Cord Jefferson, it stars Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a literature PhD and novelist whose upper-middle-class Black experience is a hard sell for publishers looking to flog books. With his widowed mother’s medical bills to pay, however, he decides to turn…

  Borley Bookworm

  January 22, 2024

  satire, drama, 3.5/4, Cord Jefferson

  3.5/4, comedy, drama, Jeffrey Wright