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Nickel Boys

2024 · Drama · RaMell Ross · 2h 20m

Two Black teenagers meet at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s and get each other through it. It is shot almost entirely from inside their eyes, so you see what they see and little else.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly heavy
  • Clearly character-driven

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