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

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

Ellis-Taylor and the crafts team talk creating her indelible performance as an anguished grandmother in RaMell Ross' ...

with some victims as young as 9. In 2019, “The Underground Railroad” author Colson Whitehead fictionalized the Dozier School into Nickel Academy for his novel “The Nickel Boys.” ...

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is based on the harrowing true story of a hellish reform school, Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida, at which more than 100 ...

Characters are put in front of us; the point of view is ours. Nickel Boys, the lucid new feature from director RaMell Ross, changes perspective and upends convention. The heart of the movie is ...

Everything’s dissolving into something new and squishy and unpredictable in the commercial cinema world, but a handful of big, presold brand names still take care of themselves every year.

Three years ago, RaMell Ross shipped himself in a wooden crate from Rhode Island to Alabama. The artist and director, who stands well over 6 feet, crammed his towering frame into the box and spent ...