Director RaMell Ross exposes the abuses of a boys' reform school with a tone poem of horrors.
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Your portion is pain.
It’s a distinct and deliberate choice with a dual and paradoxical effect.
Brandon Wilson and Ethan Herisse in ‘Nickel Boys’.Credit:Amazon studios
But these additions complicate it even further, once again enacting a dance between detachment and visceral confrontation.
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Their performances are largely experiential, which makes it difficult to connect with their work on an emotional level.
‘The Nickel Boys’ author Colson Whitehead.Chris Close; Doubleday
She exists in the film in poetic snatches of memory beyond a few key scenes.
The score is often subtle, even melodic and lilting.
Nickel Boysis a fragmented film, so much so that it can be difficult to grasp it.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor at the IMDb, WIF, and Entertainment Weekly party at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.Mat Hayward/Getty Images for IMDb
