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.

Critics Consensus

Anchored by Stephan James' soulful performance and Rashad Frett's assured direction, Ricky is a raw, empathetic, and quietly powerful parable that delivers a moving gut punch through its realistic portrayal of life after incarceration.

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Dwight Brown

DwightBrownInk.com

02/26/2025

2.5/4

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

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Jacob Oller

AV Club

01/31/2025

C

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

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Matthew Creith

IndieWire

01/27/2025

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.

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Marissa Hill

Shade Studios

Jul 30

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.

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Latoya Austin

Movie Marker

Jul 9

4/5

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 ..

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Joanne Laurier

World Socialist Web Site

May 10

2/4

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.”

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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