“Nickel Boys” is like that for me. And there are movies like “The Brutalist” where the seams show, but there’s too much worth relishing to worry about the seams. “The Brutalist” is ...
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 ...
Since attending an advanced screening of “Nickel Boys” in mid-November, I’ve seen numerous headlines and quotes touting its brilliance and naming it one of the best films of the year.
Nickel Boys' editor Nicholas Monsour goes behind the scenes of the months-long decision of how, when, and where to switch ...
The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is no ordinary movie. The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in ...
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Walk a mile in somebody else’s shoes. Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young, highly intelligent Black teen growing up in Jim Crow-era Florida.
"Nickel Boys," on the other hand, upends the viewer's expectations of what a movie should be as it's told totally in first person. This means that the moviegoer is always witnessing events through ...
Since attending an advanced screening of “Nickel Boys” in mid-November, I’ve seen numerous headlines and quotes touting its brilliance and naming it one of the best films of the year. Much of the ...
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 ...
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.