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FlixChatter Review: American Fiction (2023) – Jeffrey Wright delivers an Oscar-worthy performance in this shrewd + bitingly funny satire

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There have been some memorable directorial debuts this year and surely this is one that I won’t easily forget. What sold me initially was Jeffrey Wright’s casting, the kind of actor who never fails to deliver a solid performance. He plays novelist Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison, easily the winner of ‘best character name’ ever, who’s recently …

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FlixChatter Review: Jordan Peele’s NOPE(2022)

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A movie trailer’s main function is to advertise a future coming attraction. In essence, it is a commercial, announcing to the masses of so and so’s new movie, starring so and so, and so forth. But film trailers can also be an art form. The worst example of this is the annoying trailer for Bullet …

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