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).

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

In “Nickel Boys” the real-life horrors of a Florida reformatory school become the stuff of a masterpiece directed by RaMell ...

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

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

How can anyone process that scale of buried grief? Author Colson Whitehead funneled that sorrow into “The Nickel Boys,” a 2019 novel about two Black friends at the lightly fictionalized Nickel ...

The film "Nickel Boys" tells the story of two teens trying to survive at a racist Florida reform school. It's based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel. But critic Bob Mondello ...

The "Nickel Boys" film was adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Black teens at a corrupt reform ...

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 ...