‘Rustin’
There are plenty of biopics coming out in 2023—Oppenheimer, Maestro, Napoleon, just to name a few. But if you pick just one to watch this year, let it be Rustin, which began streaming on Netflix on Friday. Colman Domingo stars as Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civil rights leader whose contribution to the work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington has been downplayed for years, in part due to his sexuality. There’s no question that Domingo delivers an Oscar-worthy performance, and arguably a better one than Bradley Cooper, who is also playing a gay historical figure on film this year in Maestro. Directed by Tony-winner George C. Wolfe, this is a story that deserves a mainstream platform like Netflix, told by top-notch actors.