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Sidney
Directed by
Reginald Hudlin
PG-13
2022
1h 52m
Documentary
,
Biography
7.8
90%
84%
7.4
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Follow the real life story of Sidney Poitier, the Oscar winner of 1964.
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Where to Watch Sidney
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Cast of Sidney
Sidney Poitier
Self
Harry Belafonte
Self
Halle Berry
Self
Nelson George
Self
Louis Gossett Jr.
Self
Aram Goudsouzian
Self
Katharine Houghton
Self
Quincy Jones
Self
Lenny Kravitz
Self
Spike Lee
Self
Lulu
Self
Joanna Shimkus
Self / Executive Producer
Barbra Streisand
Self
Morgan Freeman
Self
Denzel Washington
Self
Oprah Winfrey
Self / Producer
Diahann Carroll
Self (archive footage)
Anika Poitier
Self / Executive Producer
Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Self
Pamela Poitier
Self
Sidney Ratings & Reviews
HuffPost
Candice Frederick
"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.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
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.
DwightBrownInk.com
Dwight Brown
This insightful doc has archived and shared Poitier's spirit. But it could have been more.
Rolling Stone
K. Austin Collins
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.
Newsday
Robert Levin
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.
NPR
Eric Deggans
"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.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Tim Cogshell
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.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
"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.
IndieWire
Christian Blauvelt
No one is better at telling Sidney Poitier's story than Sidney Poitier himself. The brilliance of Reginald Hudlin's documentary for Apple TV+ is that it lets him do just that.
Associated Press
Mark Kennedy
The filmmakers have a charismatic change-maker as their focus, but credit to them for also exploring when he missed his high ethical standards.
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
The movie's a tribute to a monument that takes care to remind us he was human.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
An assured, if unchallenging, intro to an imposing legacy.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Sure, "Sidney" tends toward hagiography at times, but it's also honest about the contradictions of this iconic figure.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
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.
Detroit News
Tom Long
"Sidney" portrays an extraordinary life in a fairly ordinary way.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
The inescapable impression is of a picture buckling beneath the weight of its subject's achievements.
TheWrap
Dan Callahan
It leans far more towards one-dimensional inspiration than insight. Important questions are sometimes raised here by the interview subjects, but they are almost always evasively dropped.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
Wearing a jacket and open-collared pink dress shirt, Poitier looks into the camera and just talks: nothing fancy, nothing special. He's the one who's so clearly special.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Even though the film is by the numbers, it offers younger generations who know nothing of Poitier's life and groundbreaking work a look at this important actor and activist.
AV Club
Ian Spelling
Hudlin builds a strong narrative arc, but never digs deep into Poitier's motivations.
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