
The Golden Globe Awards won’t kick off until Sunday, January 5, but Nickel Boys is already bringing home hardware. This weekend, the National Society of Film Critics bestowed “Best Picture” honors upon the critically-acclaimed film.
Nickel Boys is the third film from Sundance Film Festival-winning filmmaker RaMell Ross and his first full-length, major production drama. Starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Daveed Diggs, the film is an adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel of the same name. The 140-minute feature film chronicles “the powerful friendship between two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.”
“Nickel Boys is a masterpiece of an adaptation that showcases the harsh realities of racism within American society,” Dina Kaur of the Arizona Republic wrote.
“There is history as we tell it, and then there is the material: the evidence, the archive, whatever it is that makes these stories possible to tell. Ross’s film is a sterling attempt to explode that distinction,” The Atlantic‘s K. Austin Collins added.
Nickel Boys debuted in U.S. theaters on December 13, 2024 and remains in select markets.