The new "Sergio" isn't as seamless or as powerful as Barker's work in the nonfiction arena, but it takes chances and finds some real lyricism along the way.

| Apr 28, 2020

A worthy biopic in some respects but it doesn't complicate its subject enough to resonate.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 25, 2020

Even Moura and de Armas' sizzling chemistry presents its own problems to an already hobbled feature; why, after all, is this biopic about an exceptional human built mostly around a love affair?

| Original Score: C | Apr 21, 2020

It was good to be reminded of this man and the good men trying to make the world a better place.

| Apr 20, 2020

As Craig Borten's script leans more and more on romance, the film flounders.

| Apr 20, 2020

"Sergio" honors a man whom not everyone knows, but should. Yet its dry telling and skewed emphasis on his love life trivialize a man whose life was much more than skin deep.

| Original Score: C | Apr 20, 2020

Barker and Borten have chosen to retain the documentary's framing device of the rescue attempt... Here, it feels abstract, disjointed from the scenes with him and Carolina, thus weakening and muddying the story.

| Apr 18, 2020

Something like a "faith drama" without the faith (unless you count unquestioning devotion to the United Nations).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2020

It's an acting dream part and Moura's more than up to the challenge.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2020

This admiring yet sluggish movie mostly drowns its political revelations in sticky sentiment.

| Apr 17, 2020

Sergio, a Netflix docudrama directed by Greg Barker from a banal screenplay by Craig Borten, catches flashes of his brilliance from time to time but scatters and dims them through a mosaic structure that's ultimately no structure at all.

| Apr 17, 2020

In Barker's second attempt to celebrate the life of Sérgio, it's the heart that wins out in the end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2020

This portrait of a U.N. peacemaker as a real-life lover and superhero earns points for Wagner Moura's mesmeric portrayal even when it feels too good to be true. Still, in these dark days, advocating for hope and idealism feels exactly right.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 15, 2020

Sergio's intentions are pure, and the movie is pleasingly old-school in the way it merges political drama-and tragedy-with romance.

| Apr 9, 2020

An engrossing picture even for those who know next to nothing about its subject or settings.

| Jan 30, 2020

In its unnecessary length and sentimental emphasis on the man's romantic life, "Sergio" more often, intentionally and otherwise, evokes the "interminable chain of longing" of the poem's celebrated last line.

| Jan 30, 2020

Baker takes his initially enthralling documentary and dilutes the story with this new feature, creating melodramatic lightness due to the tepid tone and wheezing tempo.

| Original Score: C | Jan 29, 2020