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5 best dramedies on Prime Video to stream right now

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Prime Video top 10 movies — here’s the 3 worth watching

The Prime Video top 10 is an ever-changing list of the most popular films on the streaming service — here's the 3 you should watch right now.

Tom’s Guide

5 best movies to stream this weekend on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu and more

Not sure what to watch this weekend? Check out 'Challengers,' 'American Fiction,' 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' and more great movies that just arrived on the best streaming services.

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9 new to Prime Video movies with 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes

Amazon Prime Video has got a boatload of new movies this month including "American Fiction", "Creed" and much more.

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Amazon just added 2024 Oscar-winner with deserved 93% on Rotten Tomatoes

If you want to catch up on this year's best films, here's one.

What’s Lost in the Quest for Black Authenticity

The media’s appetite for “gritty” Black stories turns misery into entertainment

The Walrus

How to watch 'American Fiction' — stream the Oscar-winning Jeffrey Wright movie online

Jeffrey Wright stars in Cord Jefferson's sharp-witted comment on minority-ethnic storytelling, and here's how to watch "American Fiction" no matter where you are in the world.

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Amazon Prime Video suddenly adds top 2024 Oscar contender out of the blue

Amazon Prime Video adds a superb Oscar contender that you need to watch.

5 best movies to stream this weekend on Netflix, Hulu, Max and more

Best Picture nominees 'Poor Things' and 'American Fiction' land on streaming along with more movie night hits

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I’ve done some shameful things to sell my books. But there’s a line even I can’t cross

Loitering in a bookshop, I was presented with an unmissable opportunity to gain a new reader. To my shock, I discovered a scruple, writes Nell Frizzell

The Guardian - UK

Why American Fiction should win the best picture Oscar

Jeffrey Wright is in a role of a lifetime as a frustrated Black professor driven to write a cliche-riddled crime saga – and makes universal his struggle to be seen and heard

The Guardian - UK

Is American Fiction true to life? Yes, and our publishing industry has a big problem with Black writers too

In the Oscar-nominated satire, a Black author is appalled when his ‘ghetto’ spoof is a bestseller - but British writers tell us that in publishing, if they don’t want to write about trauma, they struggle to be heard

Evening Standard

American Fiction review – satisfyingly prickly satire on race and hypocrisy in the literary world

Jeffrey Wright excels as a struggling Black novelist who dashes off a blaxploitation potboiler and hits the jackpot in Cord Jefferson’s Oscar-nominated comedy drama

The Guardian - UK

American Fiction Review: in skewering stereotypes this biting satire holds a mirror up to its audience

A superb send up of the depiction of the black experience in popular culture

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

American Fiction review – entertaining comedy collision of race, class and envy

This enjoyable meta-level adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure tackles black-victimhood stereotypes, showcasing Jeffrey Wright and Issa Rae as rival writers

The Guardian - UK

Jeffrey Wright on finally being up for the best actor Oscar: ‘I was frustrated, but I’m not frustrated now’

As Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison in American Fiction, Wright is finally in the running for a best actor Oscar – while also challenging mainstream presentations of Black life

Cinemablend

Here's How To Watch Oscars 2024 Best Picture Nominees Online And Stream The Year's Most Critically Loved Movies From Anywhere

Discover how to stream all of this year's Best Picture Oscar- nominated movies and watch them online before the ceremony on March 10.

Salon

American Fiction reframes Black success

The Cord Jefferson comedy-drama changes the conversation around media expectations and race

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Doctor Sleep And Gerald's Game's Henry Thomas Discusses His Impressive History In Stephen King Adaptations

Henry Thomas has more Stephen King adaptation credits than any actor, and we discussed all of them with him in a recent interview.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘American Fiction’: Jeffrey Wright ably takes the lead in timely satire of literary world

In a richly layered performance, the actor plays a prof who writes an outlandish novel he thinks is a joke but publishers think is a masterpiece.

The Independent UK

Jeffrey Wright, shape-shifter supreme, sees some of himself in 'American Fiction'

Jeffrey Wright has played Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Luther King Jr. and Muddy Waters

The Conversation

'American Fiction' asks who gets to decide Blackness

The much-anticipated American Fiction comes to theatres this month. As a long-time scholar of Percival Everett, the author whose 2001 novel, Erasure, was adapted for this critically praised film I am curious how the main themes of the book will be explored.

The Independent UK

Movie Review: Jeffrey Wright is brilliant in the smart and funny satire ‘American Fiction’

Jeffrey Wright’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is a classic frustrated artist in “American Fiction.”

WEKU

Advice from a critic: Read 'Erasure' before seeing 'American Fiction'

With the first Percival Everett-inspired screen adaptation American Fiction coming to theaters starting on Dec. 15, we're taking a moment to revisit his provocative and affecting satirical novel.

Marie Claire

Tracee Ellis Ross Embraces Barbiecore in Pastel Pink Marni at ‘American Fiction’ Premiere

From Brandon Maxwell to Balenciaga to, now, Marni, Ross has had a banner week in fashion at two separate movie premieres and a runway show.

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