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‘Nickel Boys’ es uno de los filmes más impactantes y poderosos del año

LA Times

Una película filmada en primera persona suena a un truco. Y sin embargo, con “Nickel Boys”, que se estrena este fin de semana en L.A., el cineasta RaMell Ross no solo se compromete con la idea, sino que entrega una de las películas más poderosas del año: un viaje lírico, desgarrador y espeluznante hacia la oscuridad de una brutal escuela-reformatorio …

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3 days, 18 hours ago

Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ is a priceless paean to the lives of victimized reform-school kids

LA Times

The 2012 discovery of a mass unmarked grave on the grounds of the Florida School for Boys was the sort of headline that short-circuits the brain. A straight adaption would pack power, but it’s even better that the book came into the hands of a true humanist like RaMell Ross. It’s possible to read Whitehead’s book and think, “How could …

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4 days, 18 hours ago

He had a radical idea. Here’s how RaMell Ross and his team got inside ‘Nickel Boys’

LA Times

Cinema’s most transcendent promise is that it can put us in another person’s shoes. Told mostly in the first-person point of view, director RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” is an experiential — and experimental — adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel from 2019. “Nickel Boys” is Ross’ first foray into scripted fiction following his Oscar-nominated, nonlinear documentary “Hale County This Morning, …

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1 week, 2 days ago

‘Nickel Boys’ And ‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’: A Tale Of 2 Black Films

Huff Post

Scenes from "Nickel Boys" and "Exhibiting Forgiveness." It’s been over a decade since “12 Years a Slave” and “Fruitvale Station” were released, and white people’s proximity to a Black narrative still weighs heavily on their acclaim for it. This year’s “Nickel Boys” and “Exhibiting Forgiveness” are two other Black films that have had parallel journeys to the big screen and …

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1 week, 3 days ago

A stunning achievement in filmmaking, "Nickel Boys" shatters expectations at every turn

Salon

Without fail, there is at least one big movie every year that falls prey to the adage “style over substance,” a film that postures as an opus, but is really just filled with hot air and covered in papier-mâché with the word “masterpiece” scrawled all over its still-drying surface. It would be easy for an undiscerning eye to dismiss director …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Movie Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ is a knockout, one of the most powerful films of the year

Hindustan Times

A movie shot in first person sounds like a gimmick. Movie Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ is a knockout, one of the most powerful films of the year And yet, with “Nickel Boys,” filmmaker RaMell Ross not only commits to the idea but delivers one of the most powerful films of the year in the process — a lyrical, heartbreaking and haunting …

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Movie Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ is a knockout, one of the most powerful films of the year

Associated Press

A movie shot in first person sounds like a gimmick. And yet, with “Nickel Boys,” filmmaker RaMell Ross not only commits to the idea but delivers one of the most powerful films of the year in the process — a lyrical, heartbreaking and haunting journey into the darkness of a brutal reform school in the Jim Crow South. Ross and …

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Nickel Boys: How one of 2019’s most acclaimed books became one of 2024’s most acclaimed movies.

Slate

In 2019 RaMell Ross’ impressionistic documentary of Black life in rural Alabama, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, was nominated for an Academy Award. It was very mysterious, because the meeting’s supposed to be for an hour, and an hour and 45 minutes into it, it’s like, “I guess we’re hanging out.” And then at the end they bring up …

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1 week, 4 days ago

In 'Nickel Boys,' striving for a new way to see

The Independent

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In “Nickel Boys,” one of the most thrillingly innovative American films of …

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In ‘Nickel Boys,’ striving for a new way to see

Associated Press

NEW YORK — RaMell Ross sometimes sends his photography students out on a unique assignment. In “Nickel Boys,” one of the most thrillingly innovative American films of the decade, Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. “The power is in the self and the eyes.” For Ross, who teaches visual art at Brown University, “Nickel Boys” isn’t just about …

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Critics Choice Awards 2024: Ariana Grande's Wicked leads the race with 11 nods

India Today

Conclave and Wicked lead the nominations for this year's Critics Choice Awards, each earning 11 nods. Celebrating its 30th year, the CCA revealed three of the major categories live on NBC's Today show, including the 10 films vying for Best Picture: A Complete Unknown, Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, The Substance, and …

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Nickel Boys: The blistering drama showing the US's racist past from a new, first-person perspective

BBC

Nickel Boys: The blistering drama showing the US's racist past from a new, first-person perspective L Kasimu Harris The Oscar-tipped film by RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead's novel about two boys at an abusive "reform" school and shoots it from their point of view. The innovative new film from director RaMell Ross is based on the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by …

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1 week, 5 days ago

AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Fred Hechinger lives out his circus dream

Associated Press

NEW YORK — As a child, Fred Hechinger dreamed of running away to join the circus. Levity suits the 25-year-old, despite his role as the tyrannical Emperor Caracalla in “Gladiator II.” While his year — which has included the highly praised “Thelma,” with June Squibb — has been “fun and busy,” Hechinger says, it also “feels in some ways like …

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The best movies of 2024 as ranked by AP film writers

Associated Press

As much as theaters are humming right now, with “Wicked” and “Moana 2" bringing moviegoers by the droves, it’s been a fairly bruising movie year. “Anora” This image released by Neon shows Mark Eydelshteyn, left, and Mikey Madison in a scene from “Anora.” This image released by Neon shows Mark Eydelshteyn, left, and Mikey Madison in a scene from “Anora.” …

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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor’s Oscar nom turbocharged her career. She’s making the most of it

LA Times

From the outside looking in, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has the kind of career many actors covet. It’s always been the character.” It makes sense then that the character that earned Ellis-Taylor her supporting actress Oscar nomination for “King Richard” is based on a real-life force of nature, Oracene Price, mother of tennis players Venus and Serena Williams. And yet, the self-described …

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4 weeks ago

Two young actors find a safe space to explore brutality with ‘Nickel Boys’

LA Times

When Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson got the call for “Nickel Boys,” they each sent in an audition tape and waited. Herisse’s biggest role to that date was as Yusef Salaam of the Central Park Five in Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us”; Wilson’s was as Brandon Durrett, the charismatic point guard on a basketball team coached by Ben Affleck …

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1 month ago

The 2025 Oscars BuzzMeter: What’s getting the buzz so far?

LA Times

The Buzz is back! Mike Leigh — “Hard Truths” “Because of the scale and scope of ‘The Brutalist,’ Venice best director winner Brady Corbet could beat out Sean Baker and Jacques Audiard, but it’s a close race. Marianne Jean-Baptiste — “Hard Truths” “It’s ‘Anora’ vs. ‘Emilia Pérez’ again as Mikey Madison and Karla Sofía Gascón battle. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor — “Nickel …

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Oscars 2025: Early assumptions. True or false?

LA Times

We’re a week out from Thanksgiving, still figuring out how much turkey to buy, how a bird that size will possibly fit into our oven and whether we might use our next-door neighbor’s oven as a backup. Answer: True Karla Sofía Gascón stars in Jacques Audiard’s unusual musical “Emilia Pérez.” It’s usually silly to declare races over this early, but …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Why so many films are exploring the bonds — and travails — of longtime friends

LA Times

Will Ferrell’s early days as a “Saturday Night Live” cast member in 1995 were not promising. As Greenbaum explains, she saw Ferrell’s potential early on, realizing that “this guy is a little quieter than your usual guy,” and “went back to the writers’ room and said, ‘Don’t write him off.’” That connection — a shared “love language in comedy,” as …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Telluride Film Festival: ‘A good year for Cannes’

LA Times

It hit 100 today, and I’d like to whine about the temperature, but then I read that we’re 100 days shy of the streak Phoenix has endured this summer. The world premieres at the event included a solid August Wilson adaptation, an enjoyable but unnecessary outlet for boomer nostalgia, an elevated potboiler and a challenging, arresting adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor knows ‘Nickel Boys’ is tough. She believes you can handle it

LA Times

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is listening to Louis Armstrong singing “Makin’ Whoopee” on her phone as I slide into a booth at a Telluride hotel restaurant. People told her that Telluride was casual, “all sweatpants,” but she wasn’t about to represent her new movie, “Nickel Boys,” in loungewear. Ellis-Taylor grew up on her grandmother’s farm in Magnolia, Miss., and it was those …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

At Telluride, ‘Conclave’ pleases, even if other Oscar hopefuls aren’t ready for prime time

LA Times

The camera tips skyward in several early moments of RaMell Ross’ exquisite, elliptical “Nickel Boys.” It’s counterintuitive when a filmmaker does this: Let’s assemble all these beautiful actors and sets, the whole of a movie’s production design, but instead, turn our attention to the clouds, an exploding beam of sunlight, the swaying trees, an orange ripe for picking. Ralph Fiennes …

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5 months ago

Adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s ‘Nickel Boys’ to open New York Film Festival this fall

Associated Press

“Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will open the 62nd New York Film Festival in September, organizers said Monday. “’Nickel Boys’ signals the emergence of a major filmmaking voice,” said Dennis Lim, the festival’s artistic director, in a statement. “RaMell Ross’ fiction debut, like his previous work in photography and documentary, searches for new ways of …

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‘Nickel Boys’ es uno de los filmes más impactantes y poderosos del año

Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ is a priceless paean to the lives of victimized reform-school kids

He had a radical idea. Here’s how RaMell Ross and his team got inside ‘Nickel Boys’

‘Nickel Boys’ And ‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’: A Tale Of 2 Black Films

A stunning achievement in filmmaking, "Nickel Boys" shatters expectations at every turn

Movie Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ is a knockout, one of the most powerful films of the year

Movie Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ is a knockout, one of the most powerful films of the year

Nickel Boys: How one of 2019’s most acclaimed books became one of 2024’s most acclaimed movies.

In 'Nickel Boys,' striving for a new way to see

In ‘Nickel Boys,’ striving for a new way to see

Critics Choice Awards 2024: Ariana Grande's Wicked leads the race with 11 nods

Nickel Boys: The blistering drama showing the US's racist past from a new, first-person perspective

AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Fred Hechinger lives out his circus dream

The best movies of 2024 as ranked by AP film writers

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor’s Oscar nom turbocharged her career. She’s making the most of it

Two young actors find a safe space to explore brutality with ‘Nickel Boys’

The 2025 Oscars BuzzMeter: What’s getting the buzz so far?

Oscars 2025: Early assumptions. True or false?

Why so many films are exploring the bonds — and travails — of longtime friends

Telluride Film Festival: ‘A good year for Cannes’

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor knows ‘Nickel Boys’ is tough. She believes you can handle it

At Telluride, ‘Conclave’ pleases, even if other Oscar hopefuls aren’t ready for prime time

Adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s ‘Nickel Boys’ to open New York Film Festival this fall