Mr. Earl survives but doesn't return to Nickel and is replaced by someone who is crueler to the boys and beats Elwood during his second visit to the White House.

In the mid-1960s, at the age of 16, Gary Hay was ripped away from his parents and sent to the Arthur G Dozier School for Boys ...

Nickel Boys’ preserves Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed narrative style while adding cinematic texture that enhances key details of the book.

Nickel Boys, filmmaker RaMell Ross’s brilliant ... from the brutal beatings that occur in “the White House” to what happens to those who enrage the superintendent (Hamish Linklater).

A still from "Nickel Boys," 2024. Louverture Films Too much ... we hear the whack of the strap from the off-campus "white house" where the pain is administered. "They're all in on it," says ...

RaMell Ross’s drama—a remarkable one, about institutions, Black male friendship, social mimicry, and the Black political dream—feels shot through with the history of American image-making.

A 2012 NPR story highlighted the “White House Boys,” a group of hundreds of men sharing horror stories about the goings-on in Dozier. Mass graves were also found on the site. “Nickel Boys ...

In “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross reinvents ... Other characters rarely meet our gaze: a White prison trusty (Fred Hechinger) with whom the boys resell the academy’s supplies to local merchants ...