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Nickel Boys
Directed by
RaMell Ross
PG-13
2024
2h 20m
Drama
,
History
6.9
92%
75%
6.6
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A powerful friendship develops between two young Black men as they navigate the harrowing trials of reform school together.
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Cast of Nickel Boys
Ethan Herisse
Elwood
Brandon Wilson
Turner
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Hattie
Hamish Linklater
Spencer
Gralen Bryant Banks
Blakeley
Fred Hechinger
Harper
Jimmie Fails
Mr. Hill
Luke Tennie
Griff
Bryan Gael Guzman
Jaime
Ethan Cole Sharp
Young Elwood
Sam Malone
Percy
Najah Bradley
Evelyn
Jase Stidwell
Boy at Playground
Legacy Jones
Girl at Playground
Ky'druis Follins
Lincoln High School
Gabrielle Simone Johnson
Elwood's Girlfriend
Peter Gabb
Mr. Marconi
Bill Martin Williams
Old Man with Cane
Taraja Ramsess
Rodney
Zachary Van Zandt
White Boy
Nickel Boys Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Kat Sachs
Based on Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel, Ross's adaptation is a poetical rendering of its subject matter.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
Just because the director has shot it in this way does not mean this was the best way to shoot it.
San Francisco Chronicle
Michael Ordoña
"Nickel Boys" offers a different way to understand horrors based on true events not that far in the past by plunging viewers into its characters' humanity.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
"Nickel Boys" is a life, made up of pieces; some of them lovely, some devastating. It's a mesmerizing, uniquely told story - of memory, of injustice, of friendship, of survival.
Houston Chronicle
Cary Darling
Even the detractors of "Nickel Boys" will have to concede that they haven't seen anything quite like it on the big screen in recent years.
Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
Mark Kermode
Nickel Boys gets you in the feels.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
An exceptional film driven by captivating performances.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
This is story that should be remembered, and it is a movie that marks a remarkably original and at times daringly avant-garde feature debut for director and co-writer RaMell Ross.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
It's clear-eyed and quietly urgent storytelling in every useful way, unconventionally imaginative in the unspooling.
Washington Post
Ty Burr
"Nickel Boys" is impressionistic, as attuned to the natural and human-made worlds as the people who inhabit them.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
It is Ellis-Taylor's big-hearted performance as a grandmother with enormous reservoirs of love and compassion that deepens the soul of this beautiful groundbreaking work of art, an achievement that we'll be talking about and referencing in years to come.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Where Whitehead's novel describes his characters' physical torments in the third person, with psychological discernment and declarative precision, Ross's movie fuses observation and sensation with its audiovisual style.
NPR
Justin Chang
The approach takes some getting used to, but the effect is astonishing. It calls on us to empathize in a radical new way with these two young men, their fleeting hopes and their crushing sense of entrapment.
Los Angeles Times
Amy Nicholson
The director not only turns anonymous bones into people, he turns his people into the camera: The audience sees the world literally through the eyes of Elwood and Turner. We couldn't be hugged any tighter to their point of view.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
The movie is constructed like a visual scrap quilt made in a meticulous and orderly fashion, sometimes focusing on Elwood's life in the '60s and other times flashing forward to the near-present day.
Chicago Reader
John Wilmes
A tragic yet hopeful tale about two young Black men stuck unjustly at a brutal reform camp in the 1960s, it is a transformational sequence of compositions.
The Atlantic
K. Austin Collins
There is history as we tell it, and then there is the material: the evidence, the archive, whatever it is that makes these stories possible to tell. Ross's film is a sterling attempt to explode that distinction.
Salon.com
Coleman Spilde
In a movie that doesn't rely on its performances to prove its worth, Ellis-Taylor still manages to say so much in a relatively short time in front of the camera. Nickel Boys deftly embeds this warmth inside its core like a glowing jewel.
Arizona Republic
Dina Kaur
"Nickel Boys" is a masterpiece of an adaptation that showcases the harsh realities of racism within American society.
NPR
Aisha Harris
Ross inventively remixes iconography and history to come up with something so distinct it's (almost) ineffable. In doing so, he manages to remarkably chip away at, if not fully erase, the inherent temporal divide between his subjects and the viewer.
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