Movie Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ is a knockout, one of the most powerful films of the year
Screenshot: “Nickel Boys” trailer. (Amazon MGM Studios/YouTube) With “Nickel Boys,” filmmaker RaMell Ross delivers one of the most powerful films of the year — a haunting journey into a brutal reform school in the Jim Crow South. A movie shot in first person sounds like a gimmick. Part of the magic of filmed storytelling is accepting that…