The movie takes you through hope ... Nickel Boys will be in theaters in Metro Detroit later this month. Elwood Curtis’s ...

Nickel Boys adaptation explores the dark story of Elwood Curtis. How does the film's bold approach measure up to the Colson Whitehead novel?

The film, as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel it was based on, drew inspiration from the real-life Dozier School for ...

Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory ...

It's the story of Elwood Curtis, a young African-American boy who is sent to the Nickel Academy after he is falsely accused of a crime during the 1960s. While there, he meets a boy named Turner ...

Once again hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops, led by Cabel the Curtis' son (and Elwood ...

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Throughout the movie, Ross uses point-of-view shots to show us how Elwood Curtis sees a world in flux, where beauty and violence sharply overlap. Scenes are often impressionistic, with Elwood ...