RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” unearths the haunting realities of two boys, Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), as they navigate a brutal reform school, blending visceral storytelling with ...

Jomo Fray can pinpoint the day when the bold idea of “first-person perspective” truly clicked. The Brooklyn-based cinematographer and his director, RaMell Ross (an Oscar nominee for the 2018 ...

Cinema’s most transcendent promise is that it can put us in another person’s shoes. But what if a film could take that further and allow us to see directly through someone else’s eyes? And not only ...

The perspective of a first-person RPG is an aspect of those games that is sometimes underappreciated in the gaming world. With a first-person point of view, players are truly placed in the shoes of ...

RaMell Ross subverts our gaze again, as he did with the documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” another Academy Award contender. By Alissa Wilkinson It’s incredibly rare — in fact, I don ...

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The new movie "Nickel Boys" offers a shift in perspective on the big screen. The story is an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the friendship between two boys at an ...

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. The first person is a narrative style as old as storytelling itself—one that, at its best, allows ...