An important historical event doesn't have the impact it should have in this film. That isnt to say the film is bad...its just lacking in real power.

Colman Domingo coming in with a fabulous performance playing Bayard Rustin. His performance definitely carries the movie but unfortunately, excellent acting can only do so much when the movie never goes to the next level, especially the final act which felt short and safe. The supporting cast was good but I don't know about Chris Rock, he was miscast.

Great acting by Colman Domingo in an otherwise okay movie. Would be 5,5 or 6 without his performance for me.

Colman Domingo is an excellent actor who occasionally tends to overact a little. This is also the case in "Rustin", but I think it suits the civil rights activist he portrays here quite well. Unfortunately, good acting can't hide the fact that this movie is a relatively generic Oscar-bait biopic. Of course, Bayard Rustin deserves a movie about himself, and the topics dealt with here are also important. But the movie really plays it safe at every moment, which works in some places but is never exciting. I think the movie's biggest sin, though, is that it makes the historic "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" seem much smaller than it actually was. And that's exactly what shouldn't have happened. In the end, "Rustin" doesn't have the impact it could have had given the subject matter and the cast.

[Netflix] Treats an important topic from a different perspective, and sometimes has script details that are notable and that allow Colman Domingo to be the main support of the film. It's interesting the treatment of Bayard Rustin's double struggle against the system because of his blackness, but also within the black community because of his homosexuality. But it is a biopic surprisingly lacking in emotion, except in a few flashes of great acting, too academic to transcend beyond a (necessary) history lesson.