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

Filmmaker RaMell Ross adapted of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys, based in the Dozier reform ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

In “Nickel Boys” the real-life horrors of a Florida reformatory school become the stuff of a masterpiece directed by RaMell ...

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 ...

Elwood has been sent to Nickel after making the mistake of hitching ... The Arthur G Dozier School for Boys, in Marianna, Florida Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images In the school ...