Focus Films has released the official trailer for the upcoming satirical film The American Society of Magical Negroes. Starring Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan, Drew Tarver, Michaela ...

For some of us, “American Fiction” has a satirical audacity that’s funny right out of the gate, gathers speed and force on the runway — and then, somehow, just when the comedy should be taking off, it ...

Sen. Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, soon-to-be ex-President Barack Obama, perhaps even Barack Obama the husband and father, has always been a paragon of patience and magnanimity. Joe Lieberman ...

Nicole Byer is in her fantasy era. The actress and comedian stars in “The American Society of Magical Negroes,” the satirical comedy film from Kobi Libii that deconstructs the “magical negro” trope, ...

Nicole Byer is quite literally bringing her own brand of Black girl magic to the screen with her latest role as the proverbial H.N.I.C. of The American Society of Magical Negroes. Byer stars in the ...

Lately, I've been musing on the concept of time and its relationship to Black art and identity. I keep bumping into this question: What time do we all think we're living in right now? In the year of ...

In imagining the Magical Negro trope as an actual occupation in a fictionalized world, filmmaker Kobi Libii aims to critique and deflate the stereotype — with wildly mixed results. In one of the few ...

The American Society of Magical Negroes (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) takes a phrase and concept coined by Spike Lee and turns it into a movie. That sounds like an inspired idea, satirizing ...

“This movie is a hard no,” said one of the commenters. Others had words on star Justice Smith’s career. “I want Justice Smith to want more for himself lol,” wrote another person. Said another ...

Built atop a provocative-sounding title and premise, “The American Society of Magical Negroes” starts and ends quite well. Almost everything in between, alas, proves uneven and inert in a way that ...