Nickel Boys’ preserves Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed narrative style while adding cinematic texture that enhances key details of the book.

It’s hard to describe Nickel Boys. It seems like an injustice to call it, simply, a film. It’s a remarkable piece of art, ...

Of the two main characters in “Nickel Boys,” Jack Turner, played by Brandon Wilson, is more seasoned and he befriends the more naïve Elwood Curtis, whose bright future as a college student in ...

In adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross faced what he calls a ...

RaMell Ross’s drama—a remarkable one, about institutions, Black male friendship, social mimicry, and the Black political dream—feels shot through with the history of American image-making.

When Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (who has been acting professionally since her debut as Ariel in 1995’s Broadway revival of “The ...

The entire film is shot from the perspectives of the protagonists, two teenage Black boys sent to a brutal, segregated reform ...

"Nickel Boys," directed by RaMell Ross and adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), two Black teens in Florida in ...

Of the two main characters in “Nickel Boys,” Jack Turner, played by Brandon Wilson, is more seasoned and he befriends the more naïve Elwood Curtis, whose bright future as a college student in ...