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.

In adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross faced what he calls a ...

It’s hard to describe Nickel Boys. It seems like an injustice to call it, simply, a film. It’s a remarkable piece of art, ...

Nickel Boys is a harrowing drama, skilfully adapted for the screen by director RaMell Ross and co-writer Joslyn Barnes from ...

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has risen to fame with roles that make ignored Black female voices heard, her role in Nickel Boys is no ...

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

This story of the friendship between two boys at a reform school in Sixties Florida is a brutal work of cinematic beauty ...

Critics are counting it among the best films of 2024. “Nickel Boys” follows teenagers Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), who have been sent to Nickel Academy, where Black ...

Ethan Herisse stars as Elwood and Brandon Wilson as Turner in director RaMell Ross’s "Nickel Boys." (Courtesy Orion Pictures) Before he made “Creed’ and the “Black Panther” movies ...

But the more cynical, streetwise Turner has his doubts. Nickel Boys is the first narrative feature written and directed by RaMell Ross, who previously made Hale County This Morning, This Evening ...

"Nickel Boys," directed by RaMell Ross and adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), two Black teens in Florida in ...