In “Nickel Boys” the real-life horrors of a Florida reformatory school become the stuff of a masterpiece directed by RaMell ...

The violence committed against boys – especially Black boys – in so-called reform schools across the Jim Crow South were acts of absolute horror. So, in some ways, it makes sense that director RaMell ...

Nickel Boys” — 4 stars A movie shot in first person sounds like a gimmick. Part of the magic of filmed storytelling is ...

For “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross asks his audience to inhabit the perspective of two Black teenagers at an abusive reform ...

From Timothée Chalamet in "A Complete Unknown" to Angelina Jolie in "Maria," these actors have filled the big boots (and ...

Telling a story wholly from the POV of the main characters required sensitivity, confident actors and a wizardly cinematographer in the awards-buzzed Jomo Fray.

RaMell Ross considers himself more ... and Turner (Brandon Wilson), two Black teenagers who meet at a brutal reformatory school in the Jim Crow South. Despite the institution’s punishing ...

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

Using the camera as a character’s actual eyes is the domain of university ... the darkness of a brutal reform school in the Jim Crow South. Ross and co-writer Joslyn Barnes weren’t working ...

RaMell Ross dove into Nickel Boys with a uniquely useful background.First, as a Black man raised in the South, the filmmaker ...

You come here and see this view and you think, Yeah, this is my life,” says Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. “Then you have to say, No, it’s not really.” For the average anxious person, overhearing such a ...