Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s ...

RaMell Ross, A.V. Rockwell, Raven Jackson and Garrett Bradley are the new Black directors chronicling Black life at a ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Walk a mile in somebody else’s shoes. Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young, highly intelligent Black teen growing up in Jim Crow-era Florida.

Nickel Boys (opening Friday, Jan. 3) is a slippery ghost story in which the dead and the living, the past and the present, and the real and the fictional, are intermingled. Adapted from Colson ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“Nickel Boys,” the Colson Whitehead adaptation from director RaMell Ross, won best film from the prestigious National Society ...

How can anyone process that scale of buried grief? Author Colson Whitehead funneled that sorrow into “The Nickel Boys,” a 2019 novel about two Black friends at the lightly fictionalized Nickel ...