Nickel Boys
Nickel Boys
A powerful friendship develops between two young African-American men as they navigate the harrowing trials of reform school together.
arcanus99 reviewedFebruary 1, 2025
I have never had a movie make me angry for showing me a perspective that maddingly obscured what is clearly a powerful and touching story that is important and needs to be told. The POV perspective is so over used it becomes difficult to not be annoyed. Having to listen to people talk in muffled voices outside of the cameras view is not a story telling tool it is something that is just annoying when you use it repeatedly. I feel like the positive reviews for this movie are akin to when art galleries are in awe of a banana duct-taped to a wall. What a poorly missed opportunity to tell a story that really deserves to be told and is obscured by someone trying to impress people whose tastes are outlandishly self-inflated.