Positioned as a counter to the problematic “magical negro” trope so prevalent in film, wherein a black character is used to help or save a white character’s soul, Morgan instead finds magic ...

Libii’s film is instead a satire examining the “magical negro” trope, a term Spike Lee is credited with coining decades ago to call out Hollywood’s tendency to spotlight Black characters ...

In the language of film, the term “magical negro” refers to the stereotype of a black character who seemingly has sage knowledge or powers. And, of course, those abilities are almost always ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic In place of the tired trope of the “Magical Negro,” Tykwer gives us the Magical Middle-Easterner, a Syrian woman able to put her own nightmarish refugee ...