Nickel Boys
critic Reviews
, 90% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- Director RaMell Ross' stylistically radical approach to adapting Colson Whitehead's searing novel will be jarring for some, but Nickel Boys' sense of immersion achieves the jaw-dropping effect of walking in another's shoes.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScorePeter RainerFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Just because the director has shot it in this way does not mean this was the best way to shoot it.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKambole CampbellEmpire Magazine
Nickel Boys is a triumph.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDanny LeighFinancial Times
And yet for all the radical dazzle of Ross’s filmmaking, human drama is always the crux.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMichael OrdoñaSan Francisco Chronicle
“Nickel Boys” offers a different way to understand horrors based on true events not that far in the past by plunging viewers into its characters’ humanity.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMoira MacDonaldSeattle Times
“Nickel Boys” is a life, made up of pieces; some of them lovely, some devastating. It’s a mesmerizing, uniquely told story — of memory, of injustice, of friendship, of survival.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCary DarlingHouston Chronicle
Even the detractors of "Nickel Boys" will have to concede that they haven't seen anything quite like it on the big screen in recent years.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMargot HarrisonSeven Days (VT)
Ross...has such a keen eye for the surfaces of daily life, the eloquent details, that he creates a cinematic equivalent to stream-of-consciousness narration in literary modernism.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreSebastian Zavala KahnVentana Indiscreta
I love that Ross has decided to experiment with such a specific format, and I understand how he has tried to use it to serve the story he wants to tell. That's all very laudable, but sadly, it doesn't quite come together. [Full review in Spanish].
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKevin BourneSHIFTER
Nickel Boys is simply a work of art. It’s beautiful, poetic, and daring. In the end, it’s really a just beautiful story about friendship, family, and survival in the midst of what should be traumatic experiences; something we can all relate to.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer Scorett stern-enziFox19 (Cincinnati, OH)
Once you get used to it, there's a real reason why the director used that technique... it's a beautiful way to render the story.
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