Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s ...
As Awards season continues to showcase the best of 2024, “Nickel Boys” is one in contention for multiple nominations ...
That decision — credited in the film’s production notes to its director, RaMell Ross, and his co-writer, Joslyn Barnes, who’s also a producer on the film — certainly helps “Nickel Boys” stand out even ...
The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is no ordinary movie. The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in ...
“Nickel Boys,” the Colson Whitehead adaptation from director RaMell Ross, won best film from the prestigious National Society ...
Director RaMell Ross does something different in this film, using the camera as the point of view of the characters (we don’t see Elwood, for example, until a quarter into the film when the “eye” ...
Much of “Nickel Boys” is shown through the eyes of Elwood (Ethan Herisse, left) and his friend Turner (Brandon Wilson), seen here looking into a ceiling mirror. Orion Pictures Share Just as ...
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" takes on systemic racism, social justice and family trauma. She plays Hattie in the movie, which is based on a Pulitzer-Prize winning novel with the same name. The grandmother works ...
Characters are put in front of us; the point of view is ours. Nickel Boys, the lucid new feature from director RaMell Ross, changes perspective and upends convention. The heart of the movie is ...
It’s the question that shapes RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys, a more artistically daring literary adaptation than almost any other of its peers. His film is a feat of full-bodied immersion ...