What an atrocious film this was. Narratively it was like watching someone attempt to juggle 15 eggs and have each one splat on his face. Cord Jefferson is not the black Charlie Kaufman, as much as it seems he wants to be. And, yes, I'm going to say it, this feels like a film that panders to "white people". It serves up a mountain of white guilt and draws on predominantly white cinematic influences in order to show "white people" how silly they are while also making "black people" palatable to "white people" by showing how much like "white people" "black people" really are. I use the inverted commas advisedly because, despite Jeffrey Wright's great acting, the film doesn't contain any real people at all. It just wastes 2 hours of the viewer's life offering such low-hanging fruit you'd risk putting your back out to gather it, all the while creating parody after parody (none of which were particularly funny in my view) and pontificating obnoxiously while saying absolutely nothing of substance. Of course the pandering was effective, Oscar nomination secured. But it doesn't prevent the whole charade from being absolutely pathetic.

3/10.