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Certainly, there could have been a more straightforward adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel about the friendship between two Black boys at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s.
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Glenn Whipp, Twin Cities, 24 Nov. 2024
Advertisement Certainly, there could have been a more straightforward adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel about the friendship between two Black boys at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
Telling the stories of two Black teens confined to a brutal Florida reform school, Ross almost entirely adopts a subjective camera, shooting from the point of view of his protagonists.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
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Glenn Whipp, Twin Cities, 24 Nov. 2024
Advertisement Certainly, there could have been a more straightforward adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel about the friendship between two Black boys at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
Telling the stories of two Black teens confined to a brutal Florida reform school, Ross almost entirely adopts a subjective camera, shooting from the point of view of his protagonists.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Nov. 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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There are reports of other prison camps protesting in an effort to get clarity on FSA.Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 24 Oct. 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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Though fictional, the film follows a heartbreakingly familiar story for many immigrant modernist architects: Having survived the Nazi concentration camps, celebrated Jewish architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) escapes persecution in postwar Europe to begin his life and career again in Philadelphia.Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 20 Dec. 2024
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The camp was also used to train members of the SS, the paramilitary organization of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich that ran other concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka in Poland.Hannah Peart, NBC News, 6 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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