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MOVIE OF THE WEEK (3/15/24): THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES

"I heard the NPR reviewer didn't like our movie ... Looks like we better send them a magical Negro of their own ..." Aren (Justice Smith) looks on as Roger (David Alan Grier) prepares to show him how to diffuse a potentially dangerous interaction in a scene from writer/director Kobi Libiii's  THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES . Credit: © 2024 Focus Features. All Rights Reserved.  WATCH THE TRAILER HERE: KEY CAST MEMBERS: Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan, Drew Tarver, Micaela Watkins and Nicole Byer  DIRECTOR : Kobi Libii THE BACK STORY: Ahh ... The magical negro. First coined by Spike Lee  in response to all the black characters that would appear in movies for no other purpose than to serve as a spiritual Jiminy Cricket or Tinkerbell to the lead white protagonist, the magical negro has existed in many forms on screen. But what if they existed in real life? In writer/director Kobi Libii's documentar-er, social satire, they are. THE AMERICAN

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