“Nickle Boys” is an adaptation of a 2019 Colson Whitehead novel, which examined the horrible history of Dozier School, a Florida reform school that specialized in abusing students, using torture and murder to maintain control. The setting has been fictionalized, but the story remains close to real-world atrocities, as “Nickle Boys” attempts to turn such painful experiences into an eye-opening study of racism and violence, mixed with little moments of humanity and the dangerous ways of hope. Co-writer/director RaMell Ross (the excellent “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”) doesn’t oversee a conventional understanding of dramatic entanglements and relationships, electing to go more artful and innovative with the picture, which is mostly shot from point-of-view angles. Viewers are put into the bodies of the main characters as they navigate a treacherous world, creating a visceral feature that’s intent on exposing the building of trauma which, for some, offers no escape. “Nickle Boys” is technically daring and deeply felt, putting Ross on a mission to generate a grim sense of poetry that’s wholly cinematic. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com