Room 702 (2023)

American Fiction is a genuinely entertaining film with a few lessons.

SPOILERS AHEAD. Premature is a story about the pain of love and realities. Transitioning from youth to our perspective of adulthood, how do we grapple with loss?

These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.

This reboot of The Wonder Years is told from the lens of a Black man.

This glimpse into this world is so captivating that it is an easy must-see, nearly flawless, and exceptional in every way. 

Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.