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 ...

Humanizing the discourse around criminal justice is as ambitious a goal as any for a feature film, but it's a tall order that filmmaker Rashad Frett more than fulfills in "Ricky," his debut feature ...

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 ...

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 ...

While attending Sundance, Frett and “Ricky” star Stephan James stopped by the IndieWire Studio, presented by Dropbox, to discuss their personal connections to the story and why they felt an ...

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 ...

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 ...

starring Stephan James in the kind of A Star Is Born role more typical of festivals past. On the surface, it’s a social-realist drama about a broken legal system that mostly works to keep ...