βNickel Boysβ Review: RaMell Ross Breaks Free of Reform-School Tropes, but Loses the Plot in the Process
From βBoy Aβ (the movie that launched Andrew Garfieldβs career) to βZero for Conduct,β movies set in broken boarding schools and juvenile reformatory centers are a dime a dozen. With βNickel Boys,β director RaMell Ross finds fresh colors in such a rigidly codified genre, turning a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a minimalist tone poem. The [β¦]