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 ...

Jeffrey Wright’s exquisitely calibrated performance as the irascible novelist Thelonious Ellison, known as Monk, in “American Fiction” recently earned him his first Oscar nomination.

Cord Jefferson’s satire about Black artists fighting white perceptions of their work runs out of ideas, while Matthew Vaughn’s spy movie parody has no ideas of its own The debut film from ...