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, ...
Nickel Boys’ preserves Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed narrative style while adding cinematic texture that enhances key details of the book.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has risen to fame with roles that make ignored Black female voices heard, her role in Nickel Boys is no ...
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.
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 ...
Formally experimental, ‘Nickel Boys’ strives and sometimes succeeds ... Once there, Elwood becomes friends with Jack Turner (Brandon Wilson), who is as cynical and distrustful of the world ...
The immensely evocative Nickel Boys is the film version of the second ... when new friends Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse) and Jack Turner (Brandon Wilson) meet across a cafeteria table at what ...