Other women — Jaz and Cheryl, for example — struggle to be more than foils here, especially as Ricky moves toward its devastating climax. A tonal dissonance trips up the film, which ...
Sundance: First-time director Rashad Frett establishes himself as a major force in a film that tells a familiar story with a personal touch. For 30-year-old Ricky Smith (Stephan James), life as a ...
It’s baked into the premise of the movie that Ricky will not have an easy time on the outside, but the biggest surprise Frett’s film delivers is just how heavily stacked the odds are against ...
Few movies at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival feel timelier than “Ricky.” Adapted from director Rashad Frett’s short of the same name, which also debuted at Sundance, the film tells the story of an ...