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 ...

By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards The story centers on two young Black men, Elwood (Ethan ... wind up together at the Nickel Academy. This Florida reform school (based on a real ...