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 ...

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 ...

What he finds himself facing are dangers of both an external and internal nature, all of them brought to vivid life by star Stephan James. Ricky introduces us to its protagonist as he stands in the ...

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

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 ...