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Ashton Sanders has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
A Quiet Life
2010
Drama · Thriller
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Dir. Barry Jenkins · With Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe
In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to become one of the unlikeliest success stories in American music history.
Dir. Alex Tse, RZA · With Ashton Sanders, Siddiq Saunderson, Shameik Moore
Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his former partner is murdered.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Dir. Shaka King · With Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons
The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.
Dir. Kasi Lemmons · With Naomi Ackie, Ashton Sanders, Stanley Tucci
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Dir. Joe Robert Cole · With Ashton Sanders, Jeffrey Wright, Isaiah John
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace.
Dir. Rupert Wyatt · With John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors
