Kahlil Joseph

The movie is sensuous, no doubt, and Nickel Boys belongs to an ongoing trend, in Black independent filmmaking, of pushing sensuousness to the fore—Moonlight being the most obvious example, Beyoncé's Lemonade being the most visible, and a film like last year's All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, which was shot by Nickel Boys' cinematographer Jomo Fray, being the most similar.