Its REALLY good as a story, but contains way too many of the artistic flourishes that bogged down the book IMHO. A more straightforward visual narrative would have been more compelling.
Don't get me wrong, it is most definitely worth seeing and much, MUCH better than most films nominated this year. But there's a reason arthouse films don't always make it mainstream, and this film tends to demonstrate that.
I'm hoping to catch the film this weekend--the novel was the last book I read in 2024 and it was expectedly marvelous.
Wow. This is on my need-to-watch list
As a Black man raised by parents from Mississippi, this movie scraped my soul out, chewed it up and fed it back to me in chunks.
I also wrote a long, sadder review if anyone is interested: https://open.substack.com/pub/dynamoverse/p/nickel-boys-a-review?r=2zt1&utm_medium=ios
Its REALLY good as a story, but contains way too many of the artistic flourishes that bogged down the book IMHO. A more straightforward visual narrative would have been more compelling.
Don't get me wrong, it is most definitely worth seeing and much, MUCH better than most films nominated this year. But there's a reason arthouse films don't always make it mainstream, and this film tends to demonstrate that.