Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and the hair, makeup, and costume department heads of 'Nickel Boys' discuss collaborating to create the ...

In adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross faced what he calls a ...

Director RaMell Ross, his star and cinematographer on their film's innovative 'sentient camera'. Plus: a chat with Wallace ...

It’s a strategy she says she employed once again when she heard Ross was working on a narrative project that turned into the now Golden Globe-nominated film Nickel Boys. “It didn't matter what it was, ...

RaMell Ross has something to say. With his latest film, “Nickel Boys,” the co-writer and director solidifies his reputation ...

Given this is a tough story tied to the atrocities committed at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, where 55 bodies of ...

Nickel Boys is mostly composed of POV shots that either ... than it should be—reduced to gestures and ephemera. The larger ideas that animate Whitehead’s novel, particularly the discontinuity ...

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

“Nickel Boys” deftly embeds this warmth inside its ... them entirely just to absolve the grief and guilt. Instead, Ross crafts something that will live alongside viewers, much in the way ...

Director RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” has an intimacy to its photography ... A camera language that Fray says “invites the viewer to almost project their mind into this movie.” ...

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.

That’s perhaps why when it came to working with filmmaker RaMell Ross, co-writer and director of Nickel Boys, the adaptation ... well her push for roles and projects that center Black women.