The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in that square is clearly through a child’s eyes as ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big screen. In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s ...

The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is no ordinary movie. The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in ...

Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, now a feature film, is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Originally broadcast July 16, 2019.

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.

and RaMell Ross' "Nickel Boys," based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel about wrongful juvenile incarceration of two Black teens in Jim Crow-era Florida, finally arrive in theaters.

Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross’s film tells the story of Elwood (Ethan Herisse), an idealistic Black kid unjustly sent to an ...

Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse ... That’s why it was essential not just for RaMell Ross to tell Colson Whitehead’s story but to tell it in the way that he did.

Similarly, he doesn’t take the easier way for his latest film, the Louisiana-shot “Nickel Boys,” a searing and thrillingly unconventional adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning ...