‘Nickel Boys’ Director RaMell Ross On Reinventing the Very Act of Seeing NYT | Top Stories Salamishah Tillet 20 December 2024 at 18:01 In “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross uses what he calls “sentient perspective” to convey the characters’ view of their world. Critics say the result is stunning. © Andre D. Wagner for The New York TimesRaMell Ross in Central Park. He tried to imagine the “Nickel Boys” characters’ world the way they would envision it. He then “challenged myself to see better for them.”