Nickel Boys (12A)

★★★★★ A shatteringly powerful movie about abuse, this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer prizewinning novel is told completely through point-of-view shots of its two protagonists. It deserves Oscar attention. ~ The Times.

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From Academy Award Nominee RaMell Ross comes “A New American Masterpiece”. 

Elwood Curtis’ dream of going to college shatters on a two-lane Florida highway.

Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South.

There, he encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for survival; Elwood clinging to his optimistic worldview.

Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Elwood and Turner’s lives appear worlds away from Rev. Martin Luther King’s burnished oratory.

Despite Nickel’s brutality, Elwood strives to hold onto his humanity, awakening a new vision for Turner.

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★★★★★ A sublime, immersive adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s haunting reform school novel. ~ The Observer.

★★★★★ This adaptation of Whitehead’s novel about two young friends trapped by institutional abuse is told with piercing beauty by RaMell Ross. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★★ An artistically daring masterpiece. ~ The Independent.

★★★★★ Nickel Boys is a triumph. Its unique approach brings a new dimension to its source material, while amplifying the emotional resonance between the present and a horrifying past. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ The defining American film of the 2020s. There are about a dozen of the best shots I have ever seen in a movie. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★★ ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★★ ~ Financial Times.

★★★★★ ~ The Scotsman.

★★★★★ ~ Time Out.

★★★★ ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ ~ The Telegraph.