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

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

Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson are the stars of Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’ bold and brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead ...

The historical drama follows two young men sent to a brutal reform school in Florida during Jim Crow. We spoke to the fellas about filming in first person and the horrors of the 1960s. Brandon Wilson ...

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

NB_FP_4580 Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor stars as Hattie and Ethan Herisse as Elwood in director RaMell Ross’s NICKEL BOYS, from ...

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 ...

RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys is an incredible film adapted from the novel by Colson Whitehead. The film follows two teenagers at ...

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

Fiction offers more flexibility. For Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson, the actors who play two of the boys at the academy, Ross’s approach was understandable. “He was very confident,” Wilson ...

Set in Tallahassee, Florida, during the Jim Crow era of 1962, the film tells the story of Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young African-American boy wrongly accused of car theft and sent to ...