‘Nickel Boys’ review: A masterful work of friendship, violence, and memory

‘Nickel Boys’ review: A masterful work of friendship, violence, and memory

“Stunning” doesn’t even begin to cover it, but RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys is one of those rare Hollywood productions — perhaps alongside this year’s I Saw the TV Glow — that feels aesthetically transformative. A moving film about a violent reform school in 1960s Florida, it adapts Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Nickel Boys…