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A fresh satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people’s lives easier.

Deliberately provocative, funny and eye-opening, film skewers the potentially eye-rolling concept of white fragility with visual panache and wit: a centuries-old secret society provides “client services” to white people – kindness, consideration, hackneyed wisdom, references to their wise Black grandmother – to keep Black people safe.

('Magical negroes' is a term popularized by Spike Lee, describing the Hollywood trope of saintly, lone Black characters who exist to assist the white protagonist’s journey without any interiority of their own.)