Nickel Boys
The bold experiment ultimately doesn’t quite pay off in Nickel Boys, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel struggling to find a way of dealing with Whitehead’s fancy plot reveal towards its end – someone isn’t who we thought they were. Whitehead’s book tells the story of a poor black youth in 1960s America whose application and natural academic gifts suggest he’s going to have more life choices than the general run of his peers. And then, a complete chance puts him in the wrong place at the wrong time and instead of going off to college, Elwood (Ethan Cole Sharp as a young boy, Ethan Herisse when older) winds up in the Nickel Academy, … Read more