“Nickel Boys,’’ has earned two Oscar nominations – for best picture and adapted screen-play. The movie is based on Colson ...

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

“Nickel Boys” is a lush and essential reimagining of one of Florida’s most shameful chapters. I took in a Tampa screening of ...

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.

Nickel Boys,” playing at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center starting Jan. 31, is not an easy film. Based on the ...

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

Over two months after its theatrical debut, the acclaimed drama Nickel Boys saw a major increase in its theatrical footprint ...

Ross’ adaptation of “Nickel Boys” remains a relentlessly heart-wrenching watch through and through. The movie’s ...

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 ...

By Robert Daniels By bending time and leaning on nonlinear storytelling, “Nickel Boys” joins a recent trend of contemporary Black filmmakers relinquishing the impulse to frame Black stories ...

Washington, D.C. (7News) — 'Nickel Boys' is taking theaters by storm this winter. The film follows two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is no ordinary movie. The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in ...