Rustin is a kind of animated Wikipedia entry on Bayard Rustin, with the entirety of Black Hollywood in small roles playing important historical personages. It ought to have been hard to dislike this movie, because it’s about Rustin, and the man was amazing, but the movie is just so ridiculous. The script is abysmally bad, and the direction is broad and cartoonish. The film’s treatment of homosexuality is especially ridiculous, behaving as if homosexuality should be legally protected and tolerated (but not more than that) while also behaving as if homosexual activity is dangerous and insidious and will ruin your life. Anyway I obviously wanted to love this, but it was very silly.
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