In Rashad Frett's Sundance premiere, the actor, starring alongside Sheryl Lee Ralph, plays a young man navigating the tumult of life after incarceration.

The amount of effort it takes to be a law-abiding citizen in America—and anywhere else, for that matter—is the subject of Ricky, Rashad Frett’s thoughtful feature debut, starring Stephan James in the ...

Ricky' director Rashad Frett and star Stefan James discuss the Sundance recidivism movie at the IndieWire Studio, presented by Dropbox.

Sundance: First-time director Rashad Frett establishes himself as a major force in a film that tells a familiar story with a ...

With his directorial debut Ricky, writer and director Rashad Frett and star Stephan James sat down with THR at our studio in Park City to discuss the importance of this film and why they wanted to ...

Writer-director Rashad Frett's feature debut, Ricky (2025), is necessary viewing, and a prime example of compassionate ...

In the film, written by Frett and Lin Que Ayoung, Stephan James plays a 30-year-old newly released from prison after being locked up in his teens, who gains independence for the first time as an ...

In a masterful performance, Stephan James — whose resume is dotted with many memorable turns in “Selma,” “Race” and “Homecoming” — puts a face to the struggles that so many ex ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic In Barry Jenkins’ oneiric adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, Stephan James plays Fonny, an incarcerated sculptor wrongly accused ...