Nickel Boys: The blistering drama showing the US's racist past from a new, first-person perspective

The Oscar-tipped film by RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead's novel about two boys at an abusive "reform" school and shoots it from their point of view. The effect is profound. There's no film this year, perhaps no film this decade, that looks and feels like Nickel Boys. The innovative new film …