10 Movies Which Go From 0-100 Right At The End

10. American Fiction (2023)

Based on Percival Everett's novel Erasure (2001), Cord Jefferson's American Fiction takes a wry look at the failings of the contemporary literary scene from the perspective of author Thelonious "Monk" Ellison (Jeffrey Wright). Monk has never let the colour of his skin define his career, but he finds himself suddenly playing to a false "blackness" when My Pafology (later retitled F**k), a novel he writes as a joke and which panders to working-class African-American stereotypes, suddenly blows up.

Championed by a largely white, female, and achingly "progressive" literary industry, there is nothing Monk can do to throw the establishment off what they see as the next major Black fiction, including portraying himself as an ex-gangbanger and escaped convict. This sets up a lot of comedy, paced with the changing relationships in Monk's life, including his sister dying and his mother facing the first hurdles of Alzheimer's. 

While the film carries itself along at a leisurely pace, the final ten minutes take a turn for the meta. At the New England Book Association's Literary Award ceremony, F**k is announced the winner and Monk takes the stage, admitting he needs to make a confession before the film cuts to black. He then has a back-and-forth with a film producer, on a Hollywood lot, where they change the ending several times, including to Monk fleeing the ceremony to apologise to his girlfriend, and the cops storming the auditorium and shooting him dead on stage.