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 ...

The central character in the story is Elwood (Ethan Herisse), an early 1960s African American teenager in racially segregated Tallahassee, Florida. Raised by his doughty, loving grandmother Hattie ...

The institution inspired Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel The Nickel Boys, in which Dozier ... I was left with this real fear of violence. Even on TV, if I saw someone ...

RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead's novel from a first-person point-of-view to remarkable effect. Read the Empire review.

RaMell Ross’ newest film Nickel Boys tells the story of the friendship ... Rolling Stone’s film critic David Fear called it a “radical work of art that channels a tsunami of radical empathy.” ...

unfettered despair and fear. Like a nightmare, there is always a sense that larger trouble is hidden just out of sight. It’s there where “Nickel Boys” will live: In the peripheral ...

feel their fear. He shoots from all angles (even on a bicycle) and visually creates something we haven't seen before. "Nickel Boys" is a tough watch – largely because we don't want to admit this ...

The possibilities of film remain as alive and exhilarating as ever, as the year's best offerings proved time and time again.

My love of movie scoundrels has been sorely tested this year. When I was young, I daydreamed of exotic heists, slick con ...