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 ...

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 ...

Ellis-Taylor and the crafts team talk creating her indelible performance as an anguished grandmother in RaMell Ross' ...

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).

Filmmaker RaMell Ross adapted of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys, based in the Dozier reform school in Florida. The story is meant to reflect the experiences of the ...

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 ...

Much of “Nickel Boys” is shown through the eyes of Elwood (Ethan Herisse, left) and his friend Turner (Brandon Wilson), seen here looking into a ceiling mirror. Orion Pictures Share Just as ...

Or in memory, that fragile, boundless state we try to express in fragments, in talk or on the page, but ultimately take to our graves? It’s the question that shapes RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys ...

'Nickel Boys' based on Pulitzer Price-winning Colson Whitehead novel about Florida reform school ...

In a commercial film, it’s to be deployed only in very limited doses. And yet, with “Nickel Boys,” filmmaker RaMell Ross not only commits to the idea but delivers one of the most powerful ...