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Film round-up: January 10, 2025
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Nickel Boys, Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger, Babygirl, and Maria
STUNNING: Ethan Herisse and Brandon Turner in Nickel Boys

Nickel Boys (12A)
Directed by RaMell Ross

★★★★

CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR RaMell Ross’s debut feature takes a bold and radical look at racism and racial abuse and corruption in the United States in the 1960s against the backdrop of the civil rights movement. 

Ross’s impressive drama is based on the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, which was inspired by the now closed down Florida reform school The Dozier School For Boys, which was notorious for its abusive treatment of its students. 

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger 
Directed by Chris Foggin

★★★

 

Babygirl (18)
Directed by Halina Reijn

★★★

Maria (12A)
Directed by Pablo Larrain

★★★

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