The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is no ordinary movie. The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant ... the son of a slaveholding family who facilitated many escapes, Levi Coffin who led more than 3,000 slaves to freedom and, perhaps the most famous Conductor ...

Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys” (itself inspired by real-life stories of Florida’s now-closed Dozier School for Boys), Ross’ film sounds on the ...