RaMell Ross’s ‘Nickel Boys’ is a powerful and visually stunning adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Through a unique first-person perspective and masterful cinematography, the film plunges viewers into the heart of a brutal Florida reform school in the 1960s, where young Black boys faced unimaginable cruelty and injustice. The film masterfully weaves together past and present, highlighting the lasting impact of trauma and the need for justice.