Nickel Boys — Prime Video

RaMell Ross’ feature debut is one of the year’s boldest and most visually inventive dramas. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, it’s told almost exclusively in first-person point of view as it follows the friendship between two young African-American men whose lives are derailed after they’re sentenced to serve time in the unforgiving hell of a 1960s-era Florida reformatory. It’s radical cinematic trick may prove difficult for some viewers, but if you stick with it, you’ll be rewarded with a gut-wrenching tale of injustice and broken lives that you in the shoes of its characters like few other films have managed to...

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