Jeffrey Wright
NBFF 2025 Review: ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Successfully Challenges The Almighty Benoit Blanc
Detective Benoit Blanc takes on a new case that brings him into the orbit of a charismatic priest, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, and his devout congregation. When a mysterious death occurs, Blanc must na...
‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Rhapsody in August
When a powerful music mogul is targeted by a ransom plot, he is forced to fight for his family and legacy while jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Review: Wes Anderson’s High-Spirited, Grenade-Filled Caper
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terroris...
‘American Fiction’ Review: Black Writes
Monk is a frustrated novelist, fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlan...
TIFF 2023 Review: ‘American Fiction’ Is the Best, Funniest, and Smartest Film of The Year
Author Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is peeved because his latest offering hasn't caught fire with publishers, while a tome called We's Lives in Da Ghetto by Sintara Golden hits the bestseller lists, leav...
TFF 50 Review: ‘Rustin’ Is the Surprising, Feel-Good Film of Telluride
Bayard Rustin, advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., dedicated his life to the quest for racial equality, human rights, and worldwide democracy. However, as an openly gay Black man, he is erased from the...
‘Asteroid City’ Review: How The Wes Has Won
In 1955, students and parents from across the country gather for scholarly competition, rest, and recreation at a Junior Stargazer convention held in a fictional American desert town, only for it to b...
TV Review: Season 4 of ‘Westworld’ Gets Its Groove Back
At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.
‘The Batman’ Review: A Knight To Forget
Chike Coleman provides his take on Matt Reeves' The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson. Sometimes too much darkness can be a bit much to take.