Jeffrey Wright’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is at the end of his rope at the beginning of “ American Fiction, ” a crowd-pleaser that’s both funny and smart in its satire of race, media, artists, ...

The Statesman is a very funny satire, but "funny peculiar" rather than "funny ha ha". A deliberately anachronistic production, that looks at the impact of controlled speech, and the inevitable ...

Playing a stay-at-home mom who believes she is turning into a dog, Amy Adams lets out a feral howl against the woes of modern womanhood in Nightbitch, a potent but uneven adaptation of the eponymous ...

Election is currently available to stream on Netflix. More than two decades after its release, the Reese Witherspoon-led ...

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To the editor -- Think satire is dead? The Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up” is a satirical look at the current events where many in our country dismiss scientific fact. The movie uses the discovery of a ...

The latest hit that has him fuming is a book called “We’s Lives In Da Ghetto,” written by a comfortably upper middle class Black woman (Issa Rae) who gives interviews about how dismayed she was in her ...

Jeffrey Wright’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is at the end of his rope at the beginning of “ American Fiction, ” a crowd-pleaser that’s both funny and smart in its satire of race, media, artists, ...