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 …
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 …
