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, ...

Director RaMell Ross on adapting Colson Whitehead's novel of systematic racism and abuse into a highly subjective film.

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 ...

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 ...

Readers already know I’m high on “Nickel Boys,” having named it the third-best film of 2024. It’s sure to factor into the ...

"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 ...

Ross, who adapted the book with Joslyn Barnes, confines the camera perspectives nearly entirely to the points of view of two teenage boys, Elwood and Turner, who meet at the Nickel Academy 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 ...