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Releasing on Dec 13, 2024
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 20 m
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 20 m

Summary Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing ...

Directed By: RaMell Ross

Written By: RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Colson Whitehead

  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 20 m
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 20 m

Nickel Boys

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 16 Critic Reviews
must-see
89
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Summary Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing ...

Directed By: RaMell Ross

Written By: RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Colson Whitehead

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
14 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 16 Critic Reviews
89
88% Positive
14 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Oct 9, 2024
It feels alive like an open, bleeding heart. It’s a tragic story told with hope that doesn’t ring saccharine or overwrought. Sometimes it moves like water, flowing from ugliness to beauty. There are few American films that come close to what it accomplishes, as either film or adaptation. Nickel Boys suggests a miracle, with the makings of a classic.
By Jourdain Searles FULL REVIEW
100
Sep 29, 2024
This is a survivor’s coming of age: tough, disillusioned, brilliant.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
100
Sep 1, 2024
Pure sense and subjectivity in a way that evokes the same visual magic of Ross’ documentary work, Nickel Boys so viscerally and fundamentally centers the experience of its young Black characters that even the most racist brand of revisionist history could never hope to deny their truth.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 27, 2024
Nickel Boys is perhaps a rebuke to the idea that violence must be plainly stated in order to be understood. Here, it is palpably present in every negative space. What Ross instead affords these young men is the dignity of a point of view, drawing the viewer into the bracing immediacy of mind and body.
By Richard Lawson FULL REVIEW
84
Oct 9, 2024
Though Nickel Boys is at least in part about Black oppression and the suffering that comes along with it, Ross uses the movie’s point of view to avoid making a movie that turns that suffering into a marquee attraction or an endurance test.
By Jesse Hassenger FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 4, 2024
It’s somewhat remarkable a new work exists that sparks such conversation in the first place. Even if it doesn’t completely succeed, that’s art. That’s dynamic. That deserves your attention.
By Gregory Ellwood FULL REVIEW
55
Sep 27, 2024
Its formal showmanship unconvincing and off-putting, the film is a case study in the hazards of prizing style over substance.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Orion Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, Louverture Films, Anonymous Content
Release Date Dec 13, 2024
Duration 2 h 20 m
Rating PG-13
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Website https://www.mgm.com/movies/nickel-boys
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Awards

Gotham Awards
• 3 Nominations
Denver International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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