Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction

American Fiction: It’s a white people problem

American Fiction is a satire dealing with how white people believe Black people should be portrayed as ghettoized, badly spoken, violent and dangerous. It had some good moments and points to make, but it was all rendered into a tropey […]

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Bob Balaban, Henry Winkler, Adrien Brody, Lois Smith, and Tilda Swinton in The French Dispatch

Review: The French Dispatch, a visual tribute to the written word

The French Dispatch, from director Wes Anderson, brings a sumptuous feast of visual images, coupled with an all star cast, to a tale about a magazine. The magazine is The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun. This American

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Beyoncé and Adrian Brody in Cadillac Records

Cadillac Records, the music goes on

Cadillac Records is a 2008 film that I just found on Netflix. It’s set in the 1950s in Chicago where a young Polish immigrant named Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) opened a recording studio and started promoting the music of Black

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Oakes Fegley in The Goldfinch

Review: The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch, based on the literary best seller by Donna Tartt, recreated the story from the book, but did it without emotion or excitement. The film is 2 1/2 hours of flat performances.

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Meryl Streep in The Laundromat

Review: The Laundromat

The Laundromat isn’t a narrative. It isn’t a documentary. It isn’t a Vaudeville act. But it comes close to all those in an eccentric effort to explain the vast trail of emptiness behind the revelations in the Panama Papers.

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