Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor gives an award-worthy performance in "Nickel Boys." She got an Oscar nomination for King Richard," but ...

Nickel Boys' editor Nicholas Monsour goes behind the scenes of the months-long decision of how, when, and where to switch ...

Filmmaker RaMell Ross premiered his Tallahassee-set film Nickel Boys Thursday night, the first screening in the city after ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big screen. In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s ...

Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, now a feature film, is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Originally broadcast July 16, 2019.

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 ...

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 ...

"Nickel Boys" takes on systemic racism, social justice and family trauma. She plays Hattie in the movie, which is based on a Pulitzer-Prize winning novel with the same name. The grandmother works ...

Characters are put in front of us; the point of view is ours. Nickel Boys, the lucid new feature from director RaMell Ross, changes perspective and upends convention. The heart of the movie is ...

It’s the question that shapes RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys, a more artistically daring literary adaptation than almost any other of its peers. His film is a feat of full-bodied immersion ...

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 ...

The 42-year-old boasts an uncompromising body of work — which now includes “Nickel Boys,” his first narrative feature, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel.