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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... Elwood finds the right teacher who alerts him to the prospect of a free college education at a nearby technical school.