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Watch on Deadline Whitehead’s novel follows the friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Jim Crow Florida.
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Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2025
Told with a dynamic first-person point of view, the film places the viewer inside the experiences of two young Black men, Elwood and Turner, who are trapped in a reform school in Florida in the early 1960s.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
The story follows Elwood and Turner, played by Wilson, two Black teenagers who are sent to a reform school in Florida in the 1960s.
—Leigh Nordstrom, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
Combining that experimental approach with Whitehead’s gripping text (based on real-life reform schools and the bodies that were discovered and exhumed from their grounds decades later) was the challenge of Nickel Boys.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2025
Told with a dynamic first-person point of view, the film places the viewer inside the experiences of two young Black men, Elwood and Turner, who are trapped in a reform school in Florida in the early 1960s.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
The story follows Elwood and Turner, played by Wilson, two Black teenagers who are sent to a reform school in Florida in the 1960s.
—Leigh Nordstrom, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
Combining that experimental approach with Whitehead’s gripping text (based on real-life reform schools and the bodies that were discovered and exhumed from their grounds decades later) was the challenge of Nickel Boys.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reform%20school. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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