American Fiction didn't make it to cinemas in Australia, and while that needn't lessen the experience of people watching it locally when it debuts on Prime Video on Tuesday, it's likely to be a vastly different affair. "It's a pity that you can't get the experience of having Aboriginal people and black people and white people in Sydney all watching …
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Jeffrey Wright leads "American Fiction," filmmaker Cord Jefferson's less-than-stellar satire on race in media. In his foreword in the press notes for “American Fiction,” Jefferson writes, “I made this movie for everyone tired of these lazy, monotonous stories — especially the generations of Black artists who have too often been tasked with rendering rote suffering, to the neglect of their …
