“Sidney” doesn’t bother to simplify details around Poitier’s biography, nor does it try to complicate his story. Rather, it honors the very real complexities of the life he lived.

| Dec 6, 2022

Though far from hagiography, Sidney is laudatory, and given to a kind of soft-focus sentimentality, especially when a lachrymose Winfrey is interviewed. The tone is set by the inclusion of extracts of film archive, and Poitier’s calm, dignified voice.

| Nov 2, 2022

While the reflections from Denzel Washington, Oprah, Robert Redford help define Poitier’s career and life, it’s when we hear from the legend himself that “Sidney” comes to life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2022

This insightful doc has archived and shared Poitier’s spirit. But it could have been more.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2022

The result is about what you’d expect from an actor whose story is, in fact, stranger, more vibrant, than mythology might allow: It’s good, but it can’t always get its hands dirty.

| Sep 26, 2022

With clarity and purpose, the documentary offers a full portrait of its subject and shows us how he became a touchstone for a generation of people who finally saw a reflection of themselves when they went to the movies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2022

An apt tribute to a major figure in film history. The talking heads and archive clips do the job — but hearing it told by Sidney Poitier himself is the real treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2022

"Sidney" is mostly a loving look, aimed at reminding audiences how the arc of one talented artist's career pioneered the modern vision of racial equality in Hollywood.

| Sep 24, 2022

I'm generally suspicious of documentaries made by people who are wholly enamored with their subject... But this manages to overcome that worshipfulness by letting the man speak to some of his own failings.

| Sep 23, 2022

Like the man himself, Sidney, a documentary about the actor Sidney Poitier, is remarkable from beginning to end.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 23, 2022

"Sidney" casts its own warming glow, in a way that sheds light not only Poitier's path but also the decades in which he carved it out.

| Sep 23, 2022

No one is better at telling Sidney Poitier’s story than Sidney Poitier himself. The brilliance of Reginald Hudlin’s documentary for Apple 온라인카지노추천+ is that it lets him do just that.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 23, 2022

The filmmakers have a charismatic change-maker as their focus, but credit to them for also exploring when he missed his high ethical standards.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2022

The movie’s a tribute to a monument that takes care to remind us he was human.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2022

An assured, if unchallenging, intro to an imposing legacy.

| Sep 23, 2022

Sure, “Sidney” tends toward hagiography at times, but it’s also honest about the contradictions of this iconic figure.

| Sep 23, 2022

There is surely more to be mined from this extraordinary, complicated trailblazer’s life than one suitably enjoyable love letter to his brilliance and bravery.

| Sep 22, 2022

“Sidney” portrays an extraordinary life in a fairly ordinary way.

| Original Score: B | Sep 22, 2022

A fond and sturdy documentary whose sense of elegy is softened by having been made before Poitier’s death...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2022

The inescapable impression is of a picture buckling beneath the weight of its subject’s achievements.

| Sep 22, 2022