In long, genteel family drama / social statement "American Fiction" Jeffrey Wright (solid again) is a struggling author on an enforced break visiting his upper-middle-class Massachusetts family (inc Sterling K Brown & Tracee Ellis Ross) that's going thru change (and tragedy) as he bemoans the portrayal of black lives in pop culture (esp literature - by the likes of Issa Rae) which he does something about (via a Keith David cameo) with unintended consequences... all the while wooing Erika Alexander. Debut writer / director Cord Jefferson is ambitious, and does well... but ultimately coulda had more grit in the film's early rounds. It's not bad, but it's not great.