Nickel Boys

An astonishing account of friendship at a Florida reform school in the early 1960s

- WORDS: JASON BEST, NIGEL PIZEY, NEIL SMITH

Cinematographer-turned-director RaMell Ross' superb, risk-taking adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel puts us in the shoes of two African-American boys wrongfully locked up in a brutal reform school in 1960s Florida. It does so by adopting a first-person point of view so that we witness the film's unfolding narrative through the eyes of its protagonists, a device that doesn't just immerse us in th