American Fiction (2023): Hilarious Comedy & Cutting Commentary Worthy Of An Oscar?

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Ben & Rob get cancelled for ‘American Fiction’; the utterly hilarious 2024 Best Picture nominee that has every white person second guessing if they’ve been the wrong kind of ally to minorities! With an all star cast that features Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K Brown, Issa Rae, Erika Alexander and Lesie Uggams, ‘American Fiction’ challenges the culture of positive discrimination with equal parts hilarity and drama. When writer Thelonius ‘Monk’ Ellison’s cliche-ridden satire of a “black” novel is hungrily gobbled up by publishers and Hollywood, his private and professional life are thrown into turmoil as he is forced to deal with the falling apart of his family.

Undoubtedly the funniest of this year's Oscar contenders, do its themes of racially charged annoyance help or hinder its hilarity? Is this tale of commercial success too subtle to rea ...