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For his film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's bestseller The Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross largely tells the story using a subjective point of view, with the camera serving as the eyes of main characters Elwood (Ethan Herisse and Daveed Diggs) and Turner (Brandon Wilson).

"Nickel Boys," RaMell Ross's adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel, opened New York Film Festival's 62nd edition on Friday night. The historical drama, which received rave reviews out of Telluride in September,