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Anora, Nickel Boys, Hit Man: 2024’s best movies showed how we see each other.
1 day, 23 hours ago

Anora, Nickel Boys, Hit Man: 2024’s best movies showed how we see each other.

Slate  

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, Alison Willmore, and Odie Henderson—about the year in cinema. When I went to see Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist at the New York Film Festival this year, I ran into several friends and colleagues who assumed I was there to see it …

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He had a radical idea. Here’s how RaMell Ross and his team got inside ‘Nickel Boys’
6 days, 13 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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The Nickel Boys movie makes a radical choice—for a very good reason.
1 week, 3 days ago

The Nickel Boys movie makes a radical choice—for a very good reason.

Slate  

On a downtown street in Tallahassee, 1965, a young Black man stands in front of a store window filled with television sets, his faint reflection barely visible amid the colorful ads for Florida grapefruit. Although Elwood Curtis is the protagonist of RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, we rarely see him so clearly as in that fleeting moment. With his Oscar-nominated Hale …

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A stunning achievement in filmmaking, "Nickel Boys" shatters expectations at every turn
1 week, 5 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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Movie Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ is a knockout, one of the most powerful films of the year
1 week, 5 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
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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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In 'Nickel Boys,' striving for a new way to see
1 week, 5 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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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor’s Oscar nom turbocharged her career. She’s making the most of it
3 weeks ago

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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Two young actors find a safe space to explore brutality with ‘Nickel Boys’
1 month 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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At Telluride, ‘Conclave’ pleases, even if other Oscar hopefuls aren’t ready for prime time
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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Adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s ‘Nickel Boys’ to open New York Film Festival this fall
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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