Written by Ally Abruscato. Graphic by Anna Porter. Among the many books I was lucky enough to receive for Christmas, “The Nickel Boys” became my first completed book of 2025. This Pulitzer Prize ...
The most impressive feat a film can pull off is to convince its viewers they are seeing something wholly original. Even more ...
Ross’s experimental and fiercely empathetic sensibilities are obvious in Nickel Boys’ first-person point of view style.
"Nickel Boys" is based on a novel by the same name, about boys sent to the fictional "Nickel Academy" in Florida's panhandle, where they suffered horrific abuse. The details of the story were ...
O ver two months after its theatrical debut, the acclaimed drama Nickel Boys saw a major increase in its theatrical footprint ...
Oranges, gators, crystal blue skies full of possibility. Then, something else dawns in the opening breaths of “Nickel Boys.” The film is shot in a first-person lens. We, the viewer ...
In “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross reinvents the cinema as a language of hope. Hope for what? Survival, connection, bearing witness to historical crimes, the sacrament of peering into another ...