I have not read Percival Everett’s Erasure, the book on which Cord Jefferson’s hilarious and sharp send-up of literary culture and the Black experience, American Fiction, is based. But if […]

The latest collaboration between Eddie Murphy and director Reginald Hudlin (after 1992’s Boomerang) is one of those holiday “comedies” that depends on everyone involved being stupid, a liar, and so […]

One of the things I admired about director Nisha Ganatra’s previous film, Late Night, was that some of its insights into the way male-dominated late night talk shows operated behind […]