RaMell Ross, A.V. Rockwell, Raven Jackson and Garrett Bradley are the new Black directors chronicling Black life at a ...
As Awards season continues to showcase the best of 2024, “Nickel Boys” is one in contention for multiple nominations ...
Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s ...
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 ...
Since attending an advanced screening of “Nickel Boys” in mid-November, I’ve seen numerous headlines and quotes touting its brilliance and naming it one of the best films of the year.
With his film “Nickel Boys” (2024), director RaMell Ross passes the adaptation test. Drawing from Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel of the same name (which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize), Ross ...
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).
Similarly, he doesn’t take the easier way for his latest film, the Louisiana-shot “Nickel Boys,” a searing and thrillingly unconventional adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning ...
Nickel Boys. Whitehead’s work could readily have undergone a much more conventional adaptation, as happened for TV with his prior and equally lauded novel, The Underground Railroad. By immersing ...
In “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross reinvents the cinema as a language of hope. Hope for what? Survival, connection, bearing witness to historical crimes, the sacrament of peering into another ...
“Nickel Boys,” the Colson Whitehead adaptation from director RaMell Ross, won best film from the prestigious National Society ...
RaMell Ross dove into Nickel Boys with a uniquely useful background. First, as a Black man raised in the South, the filmmaker had the knowledge and experience necessary to adapt Pulitzer Prize ...