RaMell Ross ’ “ Nickel Boys ” unearths the haunting realities of two boys, Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson) ...

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

In the mid-1960s, at the age of 16, Gary Hay was ripped away from his parents and sent to the Arthur G Dozier School for Boys ...

Nickel Boys’ preserves Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed narrative style while adding cinematic texture that enhances key details of the book.

Ramelle Ross combined several filmmaking techniques to bring the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to life in unprecedentedly ...

Nickel Boys director and co-writer RaMell Ross explains how he navigated the complex relationship between audience and ...

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, ...

A daring visual approach powers a gorgeous film about an ugly chapter in history.

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

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is based on the harrowing true story of a hellish reform ...

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 was written by director RaMell Ross and longtime collaborator Joslyn Barnes who adapted Colson Whitehead's ...