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Nickel Boys is a 2024 drama history film, directed by RaMell Ross, starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
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60 of 317 · most liked firstThe American Film Institute has chosen its top 10 films of 2024: • Anora • The Brutalist • Conclave • Dune: Part 2 • Emilia Pérez • Nickel Boys • A Real Pain • Sing Sing • Wicked
neutral · AI labelView post →Anora would not have been my pick of the nominees (I preferred The Brutalist and Nickel Boys), but it's a terrific movie, Sean Baker is the best, and I'm always so glad when an outright comedy wins Best Picture. The cinema!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
positive · AI labelView post →Culture moves so fast and I sometimes find myself thinking "god, let this have an impact, let this be remembered," which is all to say: Nickel Boys is a fucking monumental movie and I hope we're talking about it for decades.
positive · AI labelView post →My IOWA folks, meet an Oscar-nominated director & attend a FREE community screening of Nickel Boys March 13 at Crossroad’s theater in Waterloo. This film represents historical truths that those in power are trying to erase. Please come support and edify yourselves. Bring your family and friends.
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of NICKEL BOYS, a film I unreservedly believe is a masterpiece.
positive · AI labelView post →Nickel Boys is on track to be the lowest grossing non-streaming Best Picture nominee of the modern era worldwide - even behind the theatrically released COVID year nominees like Minari and The Father! Absolute malpractice by Amazon in how they handled that film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not that any of it matters, but the idea that Nickel Boys is nominated for Best Picture but not for any awards related to the actual filmmaking is crazy to me. The movie IS the visual language in which it's presented, and the performances. To celebrate the movie itself but not that part is...yeah.
positive · AI labelView post →This month on @TheBigPic: 2/4 The Best of Sundance + NICKEL BOYS 2/7 COMPANION + Top 10 Garbage Love Movies 2/11 A Mega-Mailbag! 2/14 CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD 2/18 BRIDGET JONES 4 + PADDINGTON 3 2/21 The Best Picture Movie Draft 2/25 The 2025 Alternative Oscars 2/27 Final Oscar Predictions
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight, filmmaker RaMell Ross, a former Georgetown basketball player, is up for 2 Oscars for his beautiful film Nickel Boys. This week, RaMell was a guest on SPOLITICS discussing his journey from hoopin’ to Hollywood.
neutral · AI labelView post →In 50 years or even 5, people who regard Nickel Boys as a masterpiece won’t have any idea how it performed at the box office or how many nominations it got. I may have to remind myself of that a few times this week.
positive · AI labelView post →It's somewhat heartening that for a non-English-language film, I'm Still Here is doing really good U.S. business. It's now grossed more than $5 million, which is two times what Nickel Boys has taken in, and more than Anatomy of a Fall last year.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night's #DGAAwards winners: 🎬 Feature Film - Sean Baker, Anora 🎬 First-Time Feature Film - RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys 🎬 Documentary - Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev, Porcelain War 🎬 Lifetime Achievement - Ang Lee
neutral · AI labelView post →I just saw someone call Emilia Pérez Oscar bait, and while I have no love for that movie, what the hell are you talking about. More broadly, I think it’s worth unpacking the way we talk about “Oscar movies” in a world where The Substance, Nickel Boys, and Anora get Best Picture noms.
neutral · AI labelView post →NICKEL BOYS should have been the film with 13 noms tbh #Oscars
positive · AI labelView post →Having a drink and dinner before today’s second movie, Nickel Boys ☺️
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched NICKEL BOYS for a fourth time today as part of Black Harvest Film Festival, and I once again cried during the film’s final montage. This film is an immaculately crafted picture, one so clearly in conversation with a mountain of texts (academic, archival and personal).
positive · AI labelView post →The African American Film Critics Association’s top 10 films of the year ✨ 1. Nickel Boys 2. Sing Sing 3. The Piano Lesson 4. Gladiator II 5. Wicked 6. Emilia Pérez 7. Albany Road 8. The Fire Inside 9. Exhibiting Forgiveness 10. Dahomey #AAFCAAwards
neutral · AI labelView post →Like you'd think Emilia Perez (features a trans person, is set in Mexico) or Wicked (somehow the most anti-Trump movie of the bunch, entirely by accident) or Nickel Boys (directly depicts American structural racism) would be the ones getting people worked up, but it's Conclave.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now that more people are catching up with RaMell Ross' NICKEL BOYS, here's my piece about the film being among the contemporary works ushering a revolution of non-linear storytelling in Black cinema.
neutral · AI labelView post →My guest on this week’s episode of SPOLITICS is filmmaker RaMell Ross, whose movie, Nickel Boys, is nominated for two Oscars. The former Georgetown hooper tells the story of that time Michael Jordan, Randy Moss and … Phil Collins showed up at practice.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the school @colsonwhitehead.com's phenomenal Nickel Boys is based on and the trauma and abuse so well illuminated in that story, both in writing and on film, has ripples that are rocking individuals, families, and communities even today. Abuse is a societally shared trauma
neutral · AI labelView post →The new adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel “Nickel Boys” is unlike anything else in theaters. K. Austin Collins on the potentially alienating directorial choice that gives the movie its power:
neutral · AI labelView post →Nickel Boys opens in NY/LA today — the best film of the year, and one of the great American movies of the 21st century IMO. i'll be doing another Q&A with RaMell Ross after the 6:30pm show at Lincoln Sq. tomorrow (Sat. 12/14). in the meantime, my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
positive · AI labelView post →Noting two semi-surprising misses: Edward Berger (Conclave) just feels like a case of "Somebody had to finish 6th" (maybe the directing branch felt it was too script-driven). And Nickel Boys' cinematography: Damn. My sense is, It's a quietly divisive film and I'm not 100% sure tech branches watched.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is what I’ve seen, or am seeing, with AMC A-List this month alone: A Complete Unknown The Fire Inside Den of Thieves 2 Better Man Last Showgirl Wolf Man Nickel Boys September 5 The Room Next Door One of Them Days Flight Risk Companion That’s an average of about $2 a movie for $25
neutral · AI labelView post →NICKEL BOYS is now out in NY/LA. In my opinion, it’s the best film of the year and a total masterpiece. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →(for Brazil) RaMell Ross' Nickel Boys is a staggering achievement. as radical, visionary & moving as any commercial American film this decade (low bar, but still), and a towering reminder of the heights that literary adaptations should aspire towards. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
positive · AI labelView post →Finally got around to seeing NICKEL BOYS. Watched on Amazon and it cut to the 'watch other show' thumbnail crap the FRAME after the movie cut to black, didn't even give us the first credit title. And in a movie that holds on black before the credits to give you a moment to absorb things.
negative · AI labelView post →I reviewed NICKEL BOYS, a movie that awed me (with some small quibbles) and continues to grow on me the more I sit with it. And I’ve been sitting with it for weeks now. www.npr.org/2024/12/11/n...
positive · AI labelView post →Jomo Fray should be competing in Best Cinematography for Nickel Boys. I’d give him the gold. @samadams.bsky.social makes a good case for why. slate.com/culture/2024...
positive · AI labelView post →Oscar 2025 Thread. **Best Picture** - Anora - The Brutalist - A Complete Unknown - Conclave - Dune: Part Two - Emilia Perez - I'm Still Here - Nickel Boys - The Substance - Wicked **Best Actor in a Leading Role** - Adrien Brody in The Bruatlist - Timothee Chalamet in A Complete Unknown - Colamn Domingo in Sing Sing - Ralph Fiennes in Conclave - Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice **Best Actress in a Leading Role** - Cynthia Erivo in Wicked - Karla Sofia Gascon in Emilia Perez…
neutral · AI labelView post →1917 was an early precursor, but with Nickel Boys, Presence, and Flow we are really seeing the cinematography of video games begin to influence film instead of the other way around.
neutral · AI labelView post →Extremely happy with our list of winners for the Chicago Film Critics Association. Lots of love for THE BRUTALIST and NICKEL BOYS. nextbestpicture.com/the-2024-chi...
neutral · AI labelView post →We need to talk more about the fact that NICKEL BOYS is the best American film of the year. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just sat in a huge movie theater BY MYSELF & saw Nickel Boys. Wow, what an incredible film. Saddens me I was the only person in my city who wanted to see it (only one showtime). What a transcendental experience though. I’m slotting it just behind Substance on my list, an ongoing marathon to Oscars.
positive · AI labelView post →I saw 64 new movies in 2024. Unfortunately, some (Brutalist, Sing Sing, Nickel Boys) aren't in wide release yet (same reason a few late-2023 releases are on this list). Ranked only the elite ones. Weird movie year. The strike obviously hurt things. Expecting big things in 2025.
neutral · AI labelView post →For Little White Lies, I wrote about RaMell Ross’ miraculous NICKEL BOYS - the defining American film of the decade, and a profoundly inspirational synthesis of narrative feature and avant-garde visual essay lwlies.com/reviews/nick
neutral · AI labelView post →Not enough people saw Nickel Boys and that makes me so sad. It was my favorite film of the year and it really surprised me. I only wish I saw this on a big screen and not on my computer screen. Nothing that big should be made so small.
positive · AI labelView post →If the 2024 film, “Nickel Boys,” left you horrified by what some Black boys endured inside America’s juvenile reform schools, the real history behind the film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel is even more devastating. (cont.) I've read the book. 💔😢 www.theroot.com/the-real-nic...
neutral · AI labelView post →Bad awards-season run for NICKEL BOYS, a superlative film finding no traction... snubbed by the DGA and PGA and not even nominated by the cinematographers guild for its innovative first-person shooting. (WICKED got a cinematographers' nom, though)
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Nickel Boys (2024), about a teen who gets sent to a racist juvenile center during the civil rights era. It's shot almost entirely in first person and has lots of abstractness and symbolism. Rough subject matter ofc but a very distinct/effective movie. It's absolutely worth checking out.
positive · AI labelView post →Here are the North Carolina Film Critics Association nominees for Best of Cinema 2024. Thrilled to participate in this! 🎥 #filmsky #fyc #ncfca BEST NARRATIVE FILM Anora The Brutalist Challengers Civil War Conclave Dune: Part Two I Saw the TV Glow Nickel Boys Nosferatu The Substance
neutral · AI labelView post →“Nickel Boys should win the Oscar for Best Picture, but it’s a shame the Academy didn’t recognize exactly how this film allows us to see something new.” My latest for @defector.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →It's good to see Black filmmakers pushing non linear avante garde filmmaking. Watch Nickel Boys. This is a superb film.
positive · AI labelView post →“Nickel Boys,” which is the film of 2024 for me as well as a few other folks, will have to fight for the audience it deserves, writes Tribune film critic Michael Phillips.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just found out that the movie Nickel Boys is shot exactly like Peep Show, and I'm sure it's beautiful or whatever, but the idea of trying to shoot a drama about a serious subject in the exact same way as Jeremy and Mark arguing about wanking is very funny to me
neutral · AI labelView post →I went into close-read mode on what RaMell Ross is doing in “Nickel Boys” and his previous movie, the extraordinary nonfiction film “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Nickel Boys, a great movie i keep recommending to my friends with the caveat "oh but you can't really see it anywhere"
positive · AI labelView post →Today at The Reveal: Two reviews from me. One for NICKEL BOYS the other for SEPTEMBER 5. One is very good. The other, when the dust settles, might land as my favorite movie of the year:
neutral · AI labelView post →Just remembered NICKEL BOYS. can u believe a movie that good nominated for best picture
positive · AI labelView post →Thursday movie: Nickel Boys (2024) ****½
positive · AI labelView post →Nickel Boys—one of the year’s best movies—was filmed almost entirely in first person. But how did they do that? Like, I wanted to know what cameras they used, so I asked
neutral · AI labelView post →I never saw a movie like Nickel Boys. Might be the year’s best and easily the most artistically inventive. It got buried but don’t sleep on it!!
positive · AI labelView post →1. CONCLAVE 2. ANORA 3. WICKED 4. NICKEL BOYS 5. I’M STILL HERE 6. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN 7. THE BRUTALIST ——The Good Movie Line—— 8. EMILIA PÉREZ 9. DUNE: PART TWO 10. THE SUBSTANCE
positive · AI labelView post →Have you read or seen the Nickel Boys? I read the book but not seen the movie yet. About an abusive reform school during Jim Crow Florida in 1960s. Gets you in the feels how good kids get caught up in the system just because of race. Should be mandatory reading for all elected officials.
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming into the final stretch of Nat'l Society voting here. Best Picture goes to NICKEL BOYS, with ANORA and ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT tied for second. Now on to Director and Int'l Film (because if Best Picture is an international film, we vote on Best English-Language Film.) #nsfc
neutral · AI labelView post →NICKEL BOYS is a mammoth work. From now on, any film that claims to be “immersive” will have to be measured up against it. There’s no camera, only these characters and their perspectives somehow magicked onto a movie screen. RaMell Ross maintains and one-ups his excellent Hale County collage style.
positive · AI labelView post →This one’s for the movie goers. Movies I’ve seen this month as an AMC A-List member. Wicked Nosferatu Nickel Boys⭐️ Better Man Hard Truths The Room Next Door The Last Showgirl September 5 The Brutalist One of Them Days Sing Sing⭐️ Presence Flight Risk ⭐️ = my favorites for the month #AMCAList
neutral · AI labelView post →FRANK'S FILM REVIEW: NICKEL BOYS ⭐⭐⭐ /5 Did the filmmakers focus more on the movie's appearance than on telling its story? Here's my review. #franksfilmreview #frankgaimari #nickelboys #ethanherisse #brandonwilson #aunjanueellistaylor franksfilmreview.com/2025/01/20/n...
neutral · AI labelView post →I just read a comment from someone who thinks Nickel Boys’ POV approach had an “unintended distancing effect,” and, idk, does anything about that movie seem unintended to you
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