Spoiler alert! This story contains major details about the plot and ending of "The Nickel Boys" (now showing in New York theaters, opening in Los Angeles Dec. 20 and releasing wide in January).

“Nickel Boys” is a subtly radical act of adaptation, with a striking intuitive and meticulous visual strategy, and the result is fully equal to Whitehead’s achievement but in a new direction.

Nickel Boys officially made its streaming debut on Feb. 28 on MGM+, but now the film is expanding its streaming horizons, giving you another way to tune in.

We’ll only be on day three of 2025 when this is released, but we might be witnessing the film of the year already. Nickel Boys is that extraordinary. However, there’s a potential hurdle, which ...

NEW YORK – “Nickel Boys” is unlike any movie you’ll see this year. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the lyrical drama follows two Black teens in the 1960s ...

Nickel Boys is a rebuke of such simplistic overtures, which are usually how Hollywood has attempted to depict the unique scourge of American anti-Blackness, from The Defiant Ones to, ...

Like that film, “Nickel Boys” is impressionistic, as attuned to the natural and human-made worlds as the people who inhabit them. It’s a style that evokes the work of director Terrence ...

"Nickel Boys," an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning book co-written and directed by RaMell Ross, is one of Hollywood's finest literary adaptations. Review.

NEW YORK – “Nickel Boys” is unlike any movie you’ll see this year. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the lyrical drama follows two Black teens in the 1960s ...

“Nickel Boys” — 4 stars A movie shot in first person sounds like a gimmick. Part of the magic of filmed storytelling is accepting that something can be from someone’s point of view and ye ...

Nickel Boys Rated PG-13 for violence. Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes. In theaters. Nickel Boys. NYT Critic’s Pick. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Nickel Boys is one of the most thrillingly inventive literary adaptations our critic has seen in years, while The Brutalist is a rare American films that feels genuinely worthy of the word "epic." ...