Occasionally (as in the case of “Presence” or “Nickel Boys”) it’s an invented character with a restricted ... driving down the main road in a small town. Then we abruptly swing left ...

Nickel Boys” presents a history detached from the popular understanding of American society while serving as a powerful ...

But it also does things the novel cannot. For much of Nickel Boys, we only hear music where the characters would hear music. But the film’s subtle original score (composed by Alex Somers and ...

Delving into a buried chapter of the Jim Crow-era South, Nickel ... of both boys, this bold stylistic choice pulls viewers in from the sidelines and allows them to inhabit the characters, actually ...

“Nickel Boys” has been nominated for two Academy ... But this book, because of the way that Colson wrote it, and because of its main characters, I think I couldn’t help but put myself ...

RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys uses an inventive technique to reveal ... erasing the distance between character and viewer. We see Elwood’s world as he sees it – tough but loving too, challenging ...

“So if you take that literally, and you give the camera to our characters—the Dozier School boys, the Nickel Boys—then you’re dealing with authorship. You’re placing our ...