Nickel Boys

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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly

Nickel Boys

Nominated for two Academy Awards—Including Best Picture

Nominated for two Academy Awards: Writing—Adapted Screenplay (RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes) and Best Picture.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

"As major and memorable an achievement as any American film this decade."
David Ehrlich, IndieWire
"A clear masterpiece held together by visual splendor and idiosyncratic performances."
Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com


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Opens 9/26—Preview Q&A with director and composer on 9/23

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