• Director(s)

    Kobi Libii

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    26/04/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

  • Approx. running minutes

    105m

  • Cast

    Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan

Film

The American Society Of Magical Negroes

infrequent strong language, racism theme

A young Black artist is invited to join an organisation that uses magic in the interest of white people’s welfare in this US comedy drama that presents a sharply satirical commentary on modern-day racism. …

A young Black artist is invited to join an organisation that uses magic in the interest of white people’s welfare in this US comedy drama that presents a sharply satirical commentary on modern-day racism.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

language

sex

discrimination

suicide

rude humour

violence

threat and horror

drugs

  • Director(s)

    Kobi Libii

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    26/04/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

  • Approx. running minutes

    105m

  • Cast

    Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan

infrequent strong language, racism theme
Classified Date:
28/02/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
language
There is infrequent strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms such as ‘dick’, ‘shit’, ‘ass’, ‘asshole’, ‘freaking’, ‘hell’, ‘damn’ and ‘God’.
sex
There are mild sex references in banter between a woman and a man about whether one is “checking out” the other and “looking at your ass”.
discrimination
The film presents a satirical take on modern-day Black people adapting their behaviour to make white people feel at ease with them in the interests of self-preservation in the face of racist animosity and violence. The comedy comes from the upending of racial tropes, highlighted in a scene where a Black man is briefly threatened in the mistaken belief that he has mugged a white woman, and the exposing of hypocritical denials of discrimination, which is clearly challenged by the film as a whole. There are uses of the historical racial term 'negroes'.
suicide
Model figures placed on the roof of a toy building block structure are referred to comically as “jumpers”.
rude humour
A man touches the crotches of other men over their clothing in what are magical gestures intended to help with “male problems”.
Classified Date:
05/02/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified Date:
12/01/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)

  • Classified date

    28/02/2024

  • Language

    English