See it at the movies

Posted 1/31/24

WARWICK SHOWCASE

 

AMERICAN FICTION * * * ½ (Comedy with a Message)

Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk Ellison, a college English professor and novelist with high standards who …

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See it at the movies

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WARWICK SHOWCASE

 

AMERICAN FICTION
* * * ½
(Comedy with a Message)

Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk Ellison, a college English professor and novelist with high standards who writes a stereotypical “Black” novel as a satire on black writers, only to have the book become a huge hit.

The book becomes eligible for a major book award. To complicate matters, Monk is on the selection committee.

The movie also becomes a family drama and love story, with the issue of journalistic honesty always in the mix.

Monk, who wanted to show the literary world what good writing was, gets caught in his own attempt at satire.

How is he ever going to solve his dilemma?

The movie offers more than one clever ending, letting you decide.

NETFLIX

GRISELDA
* * 1/2
(Drug Wars)

Sofia Vergara stars as the Colombian single mother of three young boys who escapes to Miami and becomes a drug lord, eliminating everyone who gets in her way.

She marries her bodyguard who continues killing off all her enemies.

A Latino drug cop stays on her trail until the bitter end.

Griselda is one of the meanest, ambitious drug lords you will ever see on screen, very proud of the way she treats those who work for her and a true feminist.

One of the bloodiest, most violent Netflix movies.

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