By Robert Daniels By bending time and leaning on nonlinear storytelling, “Nickel Boys” joins a recent trend of contemporary Black filmmakers relinquishing the impulse to frame Black stories ...

where the predominantly Black teen inmates were abused and sometimes murdered by the white folks in charge. It's not the graphic horrors of the Nickel Academy, based on the notorious Dozier School ...

Nickel Boys, the lucid new feature from director RaMell Ross, changes perspective and upends convention. The heart of the movie is Elwood Curtis, an academically gifted Black teenager in early ...