Nickel Boys is the kind of story that probably could ... he resists easy attempts at pathos. What he achieves here is more powerful and complex. When we’re finally wrenched out of this film ...

Intended to ramp up the pathos by putting the audience in the ... That said, the sheer depth of emotion at work in “Nickel Boys” — the palpable anguish, the infuriating injustice, the ...

Spoiler alert! This story contains major details about the plot and ending of "The Nickel Boys" (now showing in New York theaters, opening in Los Angeles Dec. 20 and releasing wide in January).

I write this because “Nickel Boys,” which is the film of 2024 for me as well as a few other folks, will have to fight for the audience it deserves. It’s the narrative feature debut for ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. Nickel Boys (opening Friday, Jan. 3) is a slippery ghost story in which the dead and the living, the past ...

This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida. transcript The director RaMell Ross narrates a sequence from his film ...

From its opening scene with closeups of fruit hanging high up in a tree, cigarette smoke floating through the air and hands shuffling cards, “Nickel Boys” makes you feel like you’re taking a ...

The film is based on Colson Whitehead’s 2020 novel about two boys who become friends at a reform school and help each other endure the brutal abuse by the wardens. The fictitious Nickel is based ...

Yet with “Nickel Boys,” nominated this year for both best picture and best adapted screenplay, the photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross has done just that. His previous film, the ...

History is a matter of perspective. "Nickel Boys," directed by RaMell Ross and adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon ...