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

Readers already know I’m high on “Nickel Boys,” having named it the third-best film of 2024. It’s sure to factor into the ...

“Nickel Boys” is Ross’ first foray into scripted fiction following ... to distill the essence of the novel without taking any ...

Nickel Boys (opening Friday, Jan. 3) is a slippery ghost story in which the dead and the living, the past and the present, and the real and the fictional, are intermingled. Adapted from Colson ...

I’m surprised to hear the shot list was a whopping 35 pages, single-spaced — every single moment, gaze, and beat accounted for, in a film that still feels naturalistic. Nickel Boys is ...

In a commercial film, it’s to be deployed only in very limited doses. And yet, with “Nickel Boys,” filmmaker RaMell Ross not only commits to the idea but delivers one of the most powerful ...

I’m reminded of Spencer Tracy’s soaring words from Stanley’s 1961 film “Judgement at Nuremberg.” In reading his war crimes verdict as Chief Judge Dan Heywood, he proclaimed, “Before the people of the ...

I write this because “Nickel Boys,” which is the film of 2024 for me as well as a few other folks, will have to fight for the audience it deserves. It’s the narrative feature debut for ...

“Nickel Boys” opens December 13 ... To some filmmakers, the final pages of Whitehead's novel might have made the whole book unadaptable. To Ross, they seem to have been the reason why the ...