Location: Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater
Nickel Boys
(RaMell Ross, 2024, 140 min, USA, English, DCP)
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
– Nominated for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards
"A powerful, evocative story of friendship, pain, survival, and redemption." – Valerie Kalfrin, Alliance of Women Film Journalists
“As major and memorable an achievement as any American film this decade.” – David Ehrlich, IndieWire
“Very occasionally a movie appears that understands the potential of cinema so deeply that it changes the medium for everyone. ” – Times (UK)
"A feat of full-bodied immersion, using a point-of-view camera, finely tuned sound design, and cinematic illusion to create a reality that takes hold of and then never quite leaves its audience’s souls." – Independent (UK)
Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public.
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