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Nickel Boys is a unique screen adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel based on real-life abusive reform schools in America.
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Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
After nearly two decades of reform schools and prison stints, Manson moved to San Francisco in March 1967, according to The New York Times.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Mind Control and Operation MKUltra Manson spent his early years in foster homes and reform schools before being arrested for the first time in 1956, and was released from prison in 1967.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
Nearly every scene is filmed through the eyes of its leads, two Black boys who have been sent away to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
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Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
After nearly two decades of reform schools and prison stints, Manson moved to San Francisco in March 1967, according to The New York Times.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Mind Control and Operation MKUltra Manson spent his early years in foster homes and reform schools before being arrested for the first time in 1956, and was released from prison in 1967.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
Nearly every scene is filmed through the eyes of its leads, two Black boys who have been sent away to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reform%20school. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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