Ricky

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Ricky

2025

1h 49m

Drama

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Newly released after being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky navigates the challenging realities of life post-incarceration, and the complexity of gaining independence for the first time as an adult.

Dwight Brown

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Inobtrusive directing. Like you’re hanging out with the good and bad angels on Ricky’s shoulder.

Rated: 2.5/4

Feb 26, 2025

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Jacob Oller

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A blunt film that’s best when investing in the day-to-day textures and pain points experienced by someone in Ricky’s shoes.

Rated: C

Jan 31, 2025

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Matthew Creith

IndieWire

This all-too-familiar premise might lend itself to melodrama, but “Ricky” emerges as a marvelously understated examination of one man’s struggle to achieve stability.

Jan 27, 2025

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Marissa Hill

Shade Studios

This is a film that keeps you on the edge of your seat, emotionally invested, and rooting for Ricky to get the second chance he deserves.

Jul 30, 2025

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Latoya Austin

Movie Marker

Ricky is a powerfully moving, affecting piece which emphasises that social rituals and rites of passage are a necessary part of developing as an adult. Ricky is an impressive debut for director Rashad Frett which has converted well in to a feature ..

Rated: 4/5

Jul 9, 2025

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Joanne Laurier

World Socialist Web Site

The ambitions are worthy ones, as far as they go, but the results are somewhat dull. Everything is rounded off to grey, to drabness, in the interests presumably of “realism.”

Rated: 2/4

May 10, 2025

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Synopsis

Newly released after being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky navigates the challenging realities of life post-incarceration, and the complexity of gaining independence for the first time as an adult.

Director: Rashad Frett
Producer: Pierre M. Coleman, Simon Taufique, Rashad Frett, Sterling Brim, D.C. Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Josh Peters, Mark Steele
Screenwriter: Lin Que Ayoung, Rashad Frett
Production Co: Silver Brim Media, The deNovo Initiative, Parliament of Owls, Spark Features, Bay Mills Studios, Good Gravy Films, Ossetra Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 49m