βNickel Boysβ Review: RaMell Ross Breaks Free of Reform-School Tropes, but Loses the Plot in the Process
2 September 2024 at 02:15
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¦]