Spoiler alert! This story contains major details about the plot and ending of "The Nickel Boys" (now showing in New York theaters, opening in Los Angeles Dec. 20 and releasing wide in January).

Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s ...

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

Director RaMell Ross on adapting Colson Whitehead's novel of systematic racism and abuse into a highly subjective film.

“No one believed them until someone else said it.” Readers encounter this sentiment early in The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead’s award-winning 2019 novel, not long after the unearthing of a ...

RaMell Ross landed an Oscar nomination with his first feature, and this soul-stirring drama, based on Colson Whitehead's book ...

Nickel Academy, a reform school for troubled Florida boys, is not a place of learning—it’s a prison camp. The wards perform manual labor for no pay, can be killed if they try to flee ...

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 ...

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is based on the harrowing true story of a hellish reform ...

RaMell Ross has something to say. With his latest film, “Nickel Boys,” the co-writer and director solidifies his reputation ...