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 ...

"The Nickel Boys," Colson Whitehead's searing examination ... Her Life and Work," Benjamin Moser "An authoritatively constructed work told with pathos and grace, that captures the writer’s ...

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 ...

In a commercial film, it’s to be deployed only in very limited doses. And yet, with “Nickel Boys,” filmmaker RaMell Ross not only commits to the idea but delivers one of the most powerful ...

Nickel Boys Is a Cinematic Experience Unlike Any OtherIn refusing a conventional, objective (and objectified) approach to suffering, director RaMell Ross resists easy attempts at pathos.

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 ...

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 ...