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Nickel Boys, No Other Land, and how to put a memory onscreen

How two very different movies capture the way we remember horrible things.
Elwood and Turner look up at themselves in a mirror on the ceiling. They're smiling and wearing blue uniforms.
Nickel Boys' first-person conceit means there's only this one shot with both protagonists in it. (Credit: Amazon/MGM)

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