14 Des 2024 ¡ The Oscar-tipped film Nickel Boys adapts Colson Whitehead's novel about two boys at an abusive "reform" school and shoots it from their point of view. The effect is profound.
14 Des 2024 ¡ âThe first-person position of the camera eliminates the voyeuristic distance from racist violence, which has been typical [in film], and inserts us in the subjectivity of the black âŚ
09 Des 2024 ¡ With a brilliant twist at the end, âNickel Boysâ is a masterpiece of an adaptation that showcases the harsh realities of racism within American society. 'Nickel Boys' 4.5 stars
16 Des 2024 ¡ The innovative new film from director RaMell Ross is based on the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead about an abusive âreformâ school for boys, and provides a âŚ
12 Des 2024 ¡ RaMell Ross doesn't just interpret Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel about a racist, nightmarish boys' reformatory. He immerses you in it.
02 Jan 2025 ¡ Adapted from Colson Whiteheadâs Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel The Nickel Boys, RaMell Rossâ gorgeous, gossamer fable of 1960s racial injustice seems to slip through âŚ
03 Jan 2025 ¡ Sent to Nickel Academy, Elwood finds himself at a violent, racist reform school where he and the other Black pupils are beaten, abused and treated like prisoners. The visual âŚ
13 Des 2024 ¡ Whitehead based Nickel on the Dozier School For Boys, a notorious Florida reform school with a long history of reported abuses. Dozens of unmarked graves have been found âŚ
12 Des 2024 ¡ Similarly, the nonlinear structure, which takes the film decades into the future to an older Elwood (Daveed Diggs)âwho is viewed from behindâbreaks us from the debilitating âŚ
13 Des 2024 ¡ The open road of his future becomes a dead end as he is yanked from a loving home shared with grandmother Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) and into a segregated reform âŚ
