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This Morning, This Evening (a portrait of a rural Alabama community in which Ross embedded himself), to Nickel Boys, his impressionistic bravura fiction feature debut about two Black boys sent to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
The immersive and emotionally powerful movie, up for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay, devised a new way to portray point-of-view onscreen for this story of two boys abused at a southern reform school.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
It’s set in Florida in the early 1960s at a reform school.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Faith on death row functioned like reform school, though the graduates all died.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
The immersive and emotionally powerful movie, up for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay, devised a new way to portray point-of-view onscreen for this story of two boys abused at a southern reform school.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
It’s set in Florida in the early 1960s at a reform school.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Faith on death row functioned like reform school, though the graduates all died.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reform%20school. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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