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  • 2023
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 2 h 1 m
  • 2023
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 2 h 1 m

Summary Three decades after giving up marathon swimming in exchange for a prominent career as a sports journalist, at the age of 60, Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) becomes obsessed with completing an epic swim that always eluded her: the 110 mile trek from Cuba to Florida, often referred to as the “Mount Everest” of swims. Determined to become the ...

Directed By: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Written By: Diana Nyad, Julia Cox

In Theaters Now
  • 2023
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 2 h 1 m
  • 2023
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 2 h 1 m
Nyad
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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Summary Three decades after giving up marathon swimming in exchange for a prominent career as a sports journalist, at the age of 60, Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) becomes obsessed with completing an epic swim that always eluded her: the 110 mile trek from Cuba to Florida, often referred to as the “Mount Everest” of swims. Determined to become the ...

Directed By: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Written By: Diana Nyad, Julia Cox

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Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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13 Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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100
Oct 23, 2023
The result of so much consecration and loyalty to the subject matter is a movie of uncommon exhilaration.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 18, 2023
Audiences want to see Diana Nyad succeed, but the pleasure of the experience comes from watching actors become these characters. No matter how tricky such feats must have been to re-create, you get the impression that everyone involved was having a blast.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 18, 2023
Despite its over-credulous willingness to go along on what through one lens amounts to a massive ego trip, Nyad manages to be a celebration of perseverance, self-belief and learning how to be loved.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 9, 2023
It is a tribute to Bening’s performance that she keeps us mesmerized by Nyad even at her most stubbornly pigheaded.
By Stephen Farber FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 19, 2023
Perhaps fittingly, the directors’ big foray into Hollywood is saved by the star power of the two industry legends headlining the film. Bening and Foster are absolute delights from beginning to end.
By Barry Hertz FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 2, 2023
As a portrait of a friendship, one tested by decades of high times and lows, successes and failures, bad behavior and forgiveness, Nyad the movie is trawling deeper waters. As a bio-dramatization of one human’s resilience — and thus a stand-in for the triumph of the human spirit overall — it comes perilously close to merely treading them.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 13, 2023
Nyad’s theme of women pulling together just about lands – thanks chiefly to Foster. But following the recipe of human interest this slavishly is a fast track to not being very interesting at all.
By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Black Bear Pictures, Mad Chance, SPG3 Entertainment, Zurich Avenue
Release Date Oct 20, 2023
Duration 2 h 1 m
Rating PG-13
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Website https://www.netflix.com/title/81447231/
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Awards

Mill Valley Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
The Queerties
• 1 Nomination

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