UPDATE, SUNDAY JANUARY 19, 2025: Due to inclement weather, all screenings beginning after 5:25 PM have been cancelled!

Nickel Boys

OCOpen Caption screening
Additional program content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly. Details HERE
Showtimes updated on Tuesday evenings

Nickel Boys

Screening on 35mm

New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson’s Favorite Film of 2024

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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