Colman Domingo brings wit and wisdom to Bayard, but his performance deserves a better film than this.

Full Review | May 29, 2024

A story worth telling, but it's very much one of those movies that mistakes an important message for compelling filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 24, 2024

It is an awesome motion picture recreating an awesome time in our nation.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Mar 10, 2024

Colman Domingo's portrayal of him in George C. Wolfe's Rustin is warm and involving, and this is a somber drama about a consequential time in our nation's history...the Branford Marsalis jazz score in Rustin is as tasteful as expected, the film less so.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2024

The first scenes already seem like something taken from a Seth Meyers sketch parodying this type of film, and your tolerance for this torrent of clichés will be key in figuring out if you want to get through to the end. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 15, 2024

A biopic that, on the surface, enjoys a notable performance by Colman Domingo as the civil rights leader, but its narrative is often held back by conventional and very bland notes that weaken the basic history lesson. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 13, 2024

It’s difficult to imagine the famously shrewd yet antagonistic Rustin being better cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2024

Domingo’s performance is electric. He captures Rustin’s organiser as a defiant performer, making history he would be written out of.

Full Review | Feb 2, 2024

It's an important work of historical storytelling that functions just as well as a compelling character study.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2024

I’m all in on the film, as the historical reenactment of the march is wonderful to view. Coleman’s performance is one of the best this year--it's as if he were born to play the role of Rustin, he's that good!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 30, 2024

If any acknowledgment of the difficult periods of America’s past are going to be banned from libraries and schools, then let art do what it can to fill in the gaps.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 28, 2024

Colman Domingo commands the screen with his work. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23, 2024

Colman Domingo gives a commanding and charismatic performance in Rustin, a briskly paced drama that tells the story of underrated civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, who fought several public and private battles against racism and homophobia.

Full Review | Jan 15, 2024

I believe that Coleman Domingo's powerful performance should be recognized by the Academy Awards this year as one of the best by a leading man in 2023.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 15, 2024

Conventionally and competently made biopic.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 8, 2024

An inspiring biopicture of the civil rights leader who organized the March on Washington.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2024

Director George C. Wolfe is, at heart, a theater guy — and he recognizes that the heart and soul of “Rustin” is intertwined with the theatricality and bravado of Bayard Rustin.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 23, 2023

Another solid one, with Domingo’s lead performance deservedly earning Oscar buzz.

Full Review | Dec 20, 2023

Rustin has more on its mind than solely one man, but likely would have been better served in honing its focus.

Full Review | Dec 14, 2023

The first 4/5 of the script is paced so well that the ending feels rushed with only a brief song and the final lines of King’s speech. Still, it's overall, a strong telling of an important story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2023