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When Hattie’s grandson, Elwood Curtis, is unjustly charged with car theft, he’s sent to the Nickel Academy, a brutal reform school based on the real-life Dozier School in Florida where, in 2013, skeletons of Black boys were discovered in unmarked graves.
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Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
Nickel Boys brings the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two friends surviving a Florida reform school together to the screen.
—Fred Topel, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
The boys endure abuse at the reform school and Ross does not shy away from depicting it.
—Fred Topel, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
Most notably, the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, about two young Black men bonded by the horrific experience of being stuck in a 1960s reform school in Florida, will split the titular roles between two categories.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2024
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Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
Nickel Boys brings the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two friends surviving a Florida reform school together to the screen.
—Fred Topel, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
The boys endure abuse at the reform school and Ross does not shy away from depicting it.
—Fred Topel, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
Most notably, the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, about two young Black men bonded by the horrific experience of being stuck in a 1960s reform school in Florida, will split the titular roles between two categories.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2024
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Today, women have successfully passed almost all military training schools, subject to the same physical standards as their male counterparts.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
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This summer, Chechnya will open one of the largest special forces training schools in the world.Neil Hauer, Foreign Affairs, 4 Feb. 2019
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Those accused of disloyalty or dissent face brutal punishments, including imprisonment in labor camps, torture, or execution.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Before my parents were liberated they were imprisoned in labor camps.Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2024
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Watch: The truth about Stalin’s prison camps The most influential of Stalin memorials is being raised in the minds of the young.Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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An investigation conducted by a United Nations tribunal into the crimes committed at the prison camp led to the conviction of two top commanders at the camp and a guard for numerous crimes, including murder and torture.Greg Wehner, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
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After all, tourists from around the world pay to see sites like the Chernobyl in Ukraine, ground zero in New York City and former Nazi concentration camps in Poland.Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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The film, which includes a wrenching visit to the Majdanek concentration camp, is deftly peppered with insightful strands of Jewish history and culture.Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
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Elwood ends up at Nickel Academy, a juvenile reformatory.Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
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On the cusp of college, he’s instead sentenced to time at a notorious reformatory.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2024
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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reform%20school. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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