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

The 'Nickel Boys' actress specializes in supporting roles that steal the spotlight: “If we only know the figurehead and we ...

Nickel Boys' director and co-writer RaMell Ross says the film's nomination is an added bonus to telling an important story.

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 ...

Elwood meets and befriends Turner (Brandon Wilson), and the two create a bond that will be of great value to them as they endure the prison-like conditions at Nickel, while Elwood, inspired by the ...

A daring visual approach powers a gorgeous film about an ugly chapter in history.

we are soon at Nickel Academy (based on a notorious real-life reform school that, scandalously, didn’t close until 2011), ...

Three years ago, RaMell Ross shipped himself in a wooden crate from Rhode Island to Alabama. The artist and director, who stands well over 6 feet, crammed his towering frame into the box and spent ...

To recall a scene from “Nickel Boys,” praised as one of the year ... schoolmates like Griff (Luke Tennie) and the brutish white administrator Spencer (Hamish Linklater).

While that's not always the case — great movies are, in fact, released all year round — I do wish audiences hadn't had to wait until December to see Nickel Boys and The Brutalist. They're both ...

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.