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Nickel Boys

Nickel Boys

6.613 December 2024EN140 min
History
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
Budget: $23,200,000Box Office: $3,016,380
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Audience Take

Jacob Thompson
That's for sure. An accurate 6.6 — sounds right to me. A directorial triumph that showcases real vision.
Cynthia Miller
Drama fans will love this. The visual style is competent but uninspired. End of story.

Viewer Opinions (7)

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Brent Marchant@Brent_Marchant
★★☆☆☆ 4.0
from a technical perspective that but, despite the picture’s fictional treatment of a fact-based tale, the impact of the story is severely diluted in this anemic screen adaptation, primarily due to the filmmaker’s attempt at wrongheadedly trying to turn it into some kind of cinematic art project. When combined with the picture’s poorly penned screenplay – one rife with redundant, predictable sequences and tediously dull dialogue that tries to pass itself off as more profound than it genuinely is – viewers are left with an overlong, lackluster narrative that significantly waters down the relevance of the events being chronicled here and that could have easily pruned about 30 minutes from its excessive 2:20:00 runtime. …
9 January 2025VerifiedUser Review
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Cynthia Miller@millerc16331 opinions · User since 2011
★★★☆☆ 6.5
Personally, I an emotional gut-punch in the best sense. A promising setup that doesn't quite stick the landing. I think the pacing stumbles in places, despite the fact that it mostly works. …
11 March 2026User Review
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