American Fiction is on my top 10 list of best films from 2023! Jeffrey Wright knocks it out of the park here. American Fiction is a 2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson, in his feature directorial debut. Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, it follows a frustrated novelist-professor played by Jeffrey Wright who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical "Black" books, only for it to be mistaken by the liberal elite for serious literature and published to both high sales and critical praise. This movie made me go through all of the emotions here. It was heartwarming, sad, serious, and funny. The Director did a really great job here and this film will stand the test of time. I really hope that Jeffrey Wright receives all the high praise for this and gets more opportunities to lead in more films. American Fiction gets a high 9 stars out of 10 from me.