Bonus Review: Nickel Boys

A Film Adaptation Of The Best Selling Novel

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INTRODUCTION

This is a quick review of the newly released film Nickel Boys. Keep in mind this is but one of the many movies I watch every year, and that whatever initial grade I come up for this film could change for better or worse with time. To better keep up to date with both my thoughts on other movies and if my feelings on this film changed, follow me on Letterboxd.

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THE PLOT

Via Letterboxd: Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

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QUICK REVIEW

During the 2010s, the horrifying secrets of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys were finally brought to light; years of abuse, beatings, rape, torture, and murders revealed after decades of silence. Colson Whitehead turned this atrocity into a historical fiction with The Nickel Boys, a best-selling novel that earned numerous awards. Now, years later, we have the film adaptation, Nickel Boys, directed by RaMell Ross in his first narrative feature behind the director’s chair.

The movie has made its rounds around the festival circuit and is slated for public release in mid-December. I was fortunate enough to attend a screening in late October. By the time you read this, it will be closer to the New York release - before it expands to a wider audience in the weeks and months after.

I wish you the reader could travel backward in time and let me know who won the World Series; or, better yet, whether we set ourselves as a country on fire and elected Donald Trump again. But, alas, here are my thoughts shortly after seeing the film - presented for eyes that are a little under two months ahead of me.