“Nickel Boys” — first a novel by Colson Whitehead, now the feature narrative debut of filmmaker RaMell Ross — tackles a lot ...

Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all ...

The most impressive feat a film can pull off is to convince its viewers they are seeing something wholly original. Even more ...

Nickel Boys, which received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, was shot almost entirely in the ...

By Robert Daniels By bending time and leaning on nonlinear storytelling, “Nickel Boys” joins a recent trend ... Raven Jackson and Garrett Bradley have earned major distributor investment.

This story contains major details about the plot and ending of "The Nickel Boys" (now showing in New ... and played by Escalante Lundy. But one event centered on Mr. Earl is absent from the ...

While Ross grants that “Nickel Boys” — a Golden Globe nominee for best feature film, drama, and a winner with several major awards groups — might be challenging for those who don’t ...

Nickel Boys, the film based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel, marks the narrative feature debut of director RaMell Ross, who co-wrote the screenplay with producer Joslyn Barnes.

RaMell Ross’s "Nickel Boys" reimagines storytelling with its innovative perspective, exploring systemic injustice through an ...

Nickel Boys. Whitehead’s work could readily have undergone a much more conventional adaptation, as happened for TV with his prior and equally lauded novel, The Underground Railroad. By immersing ...