He comes to postwar America with blueprints for a new kind of beauty in director Brady Corbet’s ambitious, if imperfect, epic ...

Based on Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys,” the film sounds on the surface like it might be difficult to watch, and indeed ...

RaMell Ross uses an unconventional approach in his take on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black teens in a Jim Crow-era reform school ...

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

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 ...

As Awards season continues to showcase the best of 2024, “Nickel Boys” is one in contention for multiple nominations ...

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. 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 ...

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

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. Much of the ...

DMV local and 'NIckel Boys' Director, RaMell Ross joined Good Morning Washington to share more about the film and casting process. (7News) ...