“Nickel Boys” Both Stuns and Baffles

Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024) 2 out of 5 stars RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening) is a filmmaker of no small visual talent, capable of bringing forth evocative images of uncommon beauty. In Nickel Boys—an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 The Nickel Boys novel, and Ross’s fiction-feature debut—he exercises his directorial muscles […]