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AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain. 

Jefferson has achieved that rarity: a social satire with heart, combining social criticism with family melodrama.
Leonardo Garcia Tsao
La Jornada

As a struggling author who is rightfully angry at the world but also consumed by self-hatred, Jeffrey Wright has never been better.
Francesca Steele
iNews.co.uk