As Awards season continues to showcase the best of 2024, “Nickel Boys” is one in contention for multiple nominations ...

By Robert Daniels By bending time and leaning on nonlinear storytelling, “Nickel Boys” joins a recent trend of contemporary Black filmmakers relinquishing the impulse to frame Black stories ...

Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse ... Elwood gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he’s accepted into a tuition-free college program. Unfortunately, he ends up wrongfully ...

The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is ... a marble, strangely free in a place of captivity, bouncing down a stark staircase; the ...

It’s hard to describe Nickel ... free on Kanopy; and you should – to give you some depth-of-field.) His latest film is based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Nickel ...

I write this because “Nickel Boys,” which is the film of 2024 for ... Elwood finds the right teacher who alerts him to the prospect of a free college education at a nearby technical school.

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.