Director RaMell Ross vividly brings Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winner to life with this masterclass in adaptation.

Synopsis. 1960s, Tallahassee: Elwood Curtis is sent to the Nickel Academy reformatory for a crime he didn’t commit. Present day, New York: A revelation about the abuses suffered by the Academy’s students leads Curtis to remember his life-changing friendship with Jack Turner.

Ross’s film is a dazzling achievement—a bold and beguiling exploration of trauma and buried American history.