Here's the thing about being Black. When it comes to entertainment, we usually only have two real categories: Comedies about ...

Colson Whitehead imagined the lives of black youth abused at a boys’ reformatory ... reality of everyday life in Nickel with a thoughtful restraint. Not one to lay it on thick, he is forensic ...

Here are the biggest differences between the "Nickel Boys" book and film: In the novel, one of the key moments in Elwood's life, presented as a catalyst for his feelings about justice and rights ...

As we get closer to nominations for the 2025 Oscars, it’s looking more and more likely that RaMell Ross’s film adaptation of Nickel Boys is going to get some love. Based on Colson Whitehead ...

At the notorious state-run Nickel Academy, white boys live in one set of conditions, while the Black boys endure another. The segregation is nothing new. But the degree of the brutality ...

Despite being one of 10 movies nominated for Best Picture, Nickel Boys has largely flown under the radar, in part due to the low-key rollout that has kept it in a limited number of theaters.

Nickel Boys was one of last year’s cinematic highlights (Uproxx named it one of 2024’s best movies), and a big part of that was the score from Alex Somers and Scott Alario. In fact ...

The moment is supposed to be a set piece: Two Nickel boys, one Black, the other white, are boxing in front of all their peers, the staff, and white people from the surrounding community.

When the filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead ... like “Tomie” and “Uzumaki,” is one of manga’s biggest stars in the U.S. Here's ...

The one great conversation scene comes when Diggs sits across a bar from a fellow Nickel alumni, played by Craig Tate in a phenomenal cameo where his nervous twitches show us the broken boy inside ...

RaMell Ross subverts our gaze again, as he did with the documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” another Academy Award contender. By Alissa Wilkinson It’s incredibly rare — in ...