And yet, with “Nickel Boys,” filmmaker RaMell Ross not only commits to the idea but delivers one of the most powerful films ...

You’ve described yourself as a “liberated documentarian,” and said you believe that traditional documentary methods and ...

Director RaMell Ross brings an experimental aesthetic to his adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning novel about a brutal reform ...

Nickel Boys’ was a chance for Mississippi native Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor to honor her Southern roots. 'I always have to have ...

The film is told from a different perspective – point of view – with actors staring into the camera to tell the story of an ...

Nickel Boys is an MGM movie, and Amazon has owned MGM since the 2022 acquisition. The MGM movies have been streaming on Prime—albeit slowly. First, the movies go to MGM+, before they become available ...

Filmmaker RaMell Ross doesn't just interpret Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel about a racist, nightmarish boys' ...

The story of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys,” laced with the cruelties of the Jim Crow-era South, has commonalities with films ...

This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

It’s a straightforward story, of power, corruption, brutality, and racism in the Jim Crow South, set between 1962 and 1967, when Elwood (Ethan Herisse), one of two featured inmates, “ages out”—that is ...

Two young Black men in Jim Crow-era Florida, idealistic activist Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and cynical Turner (Brandon Wilson), bond as they attempt to survive Nickel Academy, a reform school rife ...

Ethan Slater is an actor, singer, writer, and composer who was nominated for a Tony Award for playing the lead role of SpongeBob SquarePants in the Broadway musical. His newest role is Boq in the ...