Nickel Boys”—director Ramell Ross’ drama that earned a 2025 Best Picture Oscar nomination—is coming soon to streaming video ...

Nickel Boys (opening Friday, Jan. 3) is a slippery ghost story in which the dead and the living, the past and the present, and the real and the fictional, are intermingled. Adapted from Colson ...

How can anyone process that scale of buried grief? Author Colson Whitehead funneled that sorrow into “The Nickel Boys,” a 2019 novel about two Black friends at the lightly fictionalized Nickel ...

I write this because “Nickel Boys,” which is the film of 2024 for me as well as a few other folks, will have to fight for the audience it deserves. It’s the narrative feature debut for ...

In “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross reinvents the cinema as a language of hope. Hope for what? Survival, connection, bearing witness to historical crimes, the sacrament of peering into another ...

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

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 reform school is the Nickel Academy, and “Nickel Boys” tells the story of Elwood and his friend Turner during the time they were Nickel boys. Although the film does include harsh scenes ...

The Academy Awards have picked up their pencils and voted filmmaker RaMell Ross in Best Screenplay and Best Picture at this ...

Everything’s dissolving into something new and squishy and unpredictable in the commercial cinema world, but a handful of big, presold brand names still take care of themselves every year.

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 ...