Nickel Boys is the best movie of 2024 by a country mile, and easily one of the best of the century.

| Apr 17, 2025

At its most brilliant, Ross’s visual approach solidifies Nickel Boys’ most profound reminder: all these boys’ experiences, memories, and lives mattered.

| Apr 3, 2025

Not being an easy watch, Nickel Boys offers an impressionistic view of a tragic experience, covering predictable ground with an admirable sense of artistry and a fair dose of sincerity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 18, 2025

...Nickel Boys almost wastes the power of its plot due to the gimmicks of the images. It's a shame because the performances are convincing, more so than the story itself. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2025

Its stylistic accomplishment is less in reanimating history than making it live and breathe in the present — to interrogate ideas about the gaze, and what we as an audience bring to the table.

| Mar 10, 2025

Rather than relying on experimental storytelling, Ross might have been better served by focusing on the raw power of the story itself.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 5, 2025

The director’s performance is what you’ll notice first, and unlike other examples of such, Ross’ work is nearly egoless.

| Mar 4, 2025

That Ross and Fray have managed to make it work and have created a film unlike any other proves it was a risk worth taking.

| Mar 4, 2025

Not only the best film of the year but one of the greatest movies of this decade. Gobsmacked and bedazzled, I was left.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 3, 2025

By putting you in the literal point-of-view of its characters, the film becomes an empathy machine.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2025

Nickel Boys not only confronts the events of the past, it also uses them to create a fiction that is so intelligent and relevant in practically any era. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 28, 2025

Nickel Boys is a redefinition of what cinema can do, how it can speak to us, how it can reshape the very act of remembering, and serves an argument for documented fiction as something more than just a well-meaning exercise in period-accurate suffering.

| Feb 28, 2025

All in all, this is a very interesting film, very well done and surprising for a director's second work. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 28, 2025

...an essentially moral film, emotional to the point of desperation and, despite everything and against everything, beautiful. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 26, 2025

...the first capital G-great film of the post-DEI era.

| Feb 26, 2025

His use of first-person POV places us inside Elwood’s mind at key moments, not as a gimmick, but as a demand: feel this.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 24, 2025

Not an easy watch, but a worthwhile one.

| Original Score: 18/20 | Feb 18, 2025

We come to really care about the characters and the film immerses us in the time period, letting us see the injustices and the way of life that was.

| Feb 16, 2025

Based on Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel, Ross’s adaptation is a poetical rendering of its subject matter.

| Feb 13, 2025

Ross...has such a keen eye for the surfaces of daily life, the eloquent details, that he creates a cinematic equivalent to stream-of-consciousness narration in literary modernism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2025