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American Fiction (2023)

Big transitions are often really uncomfortable, and here Jeffrey Wright takes us thru a piece of the African American cultural transition from chattel slavery to [whatever you want to call what our society is doing now] in respectively uncomfortable fashion, and it works - it’s fairly funny, but also pointed and critical, with good music and acting throughout. 

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