A well written film that touches on many aspects fairly and balance it well. Monk (Played by Jeffrey Wright) is a writer and novelist who gets himself into many challenges after 'mockingly' writing a novel that in his opinion does not fit the criteria of what a novel that represents the African American cultural should be.

In addition of the novel, he suffers mentally and physically with some family issues and revisits some of his family's secretes and past.

The film discusses guilt, loneliness, regret, self control, love, hate, disgust and many more all through mainly Jeffrey Wright's character in which he gives one of the best performances of his career. As well as the supporting actors that gave the film it's topics and helped in delivering them.

The ending (last 2 minutes) is quiet disappointing and should've taken another direction. It was weird and did not fit with what we have been watching for the past 1h 58m. However, this did not ruin the whole experience of the film.

Finally, the jazz themed music score that reflects on our protagonist and African American culture was truly the perfect choice for this film and did fit the story and events very well.