The film, as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel it was based on, drew inspiration from the real-life Dozier School for ...

Director RaMell Ross' first-person POV approach offers a fresh approach to this adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel.

Based on a Colson Whitehead novel, the Oscar-nominated movie dramatizes the story of the Florida School for Boys, which traumatized children as young as 5 for more than a century ...

Hattie is the grandmother of Elwood (Ethan Herisse), a Black teen who gets sent to a juvenile reform school in the 1960s Jim Crow era just before he starts college. There, he builds a friendship ...

Ethan Herisse stars in “Nickel Boys.” (Orion Pictures) I leave you with “Anora” and “The Brutalist” as two highlights from the past year that tell us something about where we are as a ...

Delving into a buried chapter of the Jim Crow-era South, Nickel Boys follows a bright young Black boy named Elwood (Ethan Herisse) who is wrongfully sent to a segregated reform school in Florida ...