Movie · Netflix · 2023
Nyad
63Or leave it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
A true story about a will that will not retire. The record is disputed. The friendship is not.
The glance
Piety, Republic are the thin ones.
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
Annette Bening plays Nyad as a person who has already been famous and is unbearable in the service of one more attempt. Jodie Foster's Bonnie is the moral center: the friend who can say no and still gets in the boat. The Cuba-to-Florida swim is a fact people argue about. Believe the film on the effort and the friendship. Do not treat the credits as a settled plaque.
Strong for thirteen. The body in pain is the point, not a thrill. Ask whether a friend owes you the boat, and what you owe the friend if you are the one rowing.
Folio
Keep Nyad in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
9/10
Training, navigation, a body that keeps being asked. Work is the whole film.
Household
7/10
Not a marriage. A friendship with the weight of one, and it is allowed to fray.
Piety
3/10
The sea is awesome. She does not bow to anything but the finish.
Courage
9/10
She gets back in the water after the failure.
Republic
4/10
A crew on a boat. The public is an argument she starts later.
Temperance
6/10
Obsession is the risk. The film does not call it balance.
Truth
6/10
It is honest that she is difficult. Less honest, some say, about the swim itself.
Stewardship
6/10
A late life still spent on a hard thing. That is worth showing a teenager.
Live historicallyFinish a hard thing you quit because it embarrassed you.