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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 12 Aug 2021

Earnest to a fault, Respect spells out a handsome tribute to Aretha Franklin, with Jennifer Hudson and her peerless singing pipes as its formidable…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 12 Aug 2021

Respect, the new movie starring Jennifer Hudson as the late soul singer Aretha Franklin, proves once again that musical biopics have become…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 12 Aug 2021

The preceding two-plus hours of this 145-minute slog — Tommy’s threadbare hodgepodge of bad impressions, gratuitous filmmaking, and even…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 11 Aug 2021

Respect is nominally a movie about a woman finding her voice, but more accurately it’s about her taking full possession of it…

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By Carys Anderson (2) for Consequence (296) on 11 Aug 2021

All of the events of Respect are to be expected. No new truths about the Queen of Soul are unearthed…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 11 Aug 2021

The turbulence of the life and the wondrousness of the talent are an irresistible combination…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 11 Aug 2021

We get some great music in Respect, but only a surface sense of the rest…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 Aug 2021

Respect is filled with memorable supporting turns, including Audra McDonald as Aretha’s mother and Saycon Sengbloh and Hailey Kilgore as…

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By Helen O'hara (407) for Empire (3,446) on 10 Aug 2021

A perfectly serviceable biopic with good performances, which goes some way to explaining Franklin’s genius as a musician and a star, but…

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By Mary Sollosi (29) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 10 Aug 2021

It isn't nearly as compelling a movie as Franklin was a singer, but while the film never fully captures her brilliance, it does at least effectively…

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By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Aug 2021

Franklin’s real life was obviously rife with drama worthy of the big screen, but Wilson and TV-trained director Liesl Tommy take a comprehensive,…

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By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 10 Aug 2021

The script by Tracey Scott Wilson (Fosse/Verdon) is a collection of scenes that don’t add up to much, never really building and interrupted…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 09 Aug 2021

Similar to other recent musical biopic vehicles like Judy and The United States vs…

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By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Aug 2021

When Jennifer Hudson is singing her heart out, not so much approximating Aretha’s voice as channeling her soul, the effect is transportive…

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By Jenny Nulf (101) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Aug 2021

The casting is the only part of the movie that feels genuine, with Hudson channeling the Dreamgirls emotive performance that earned her an…

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By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 09 Aug 2021

In the leading role as the queen of soul, Jennifer Hudson comports herself as well as could be hoped considering the material she’s been…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Aug 2021

Respect has everything you could hope for in a musical biopic…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 08 Aug 2021

A powerful account of self-actualization spanning 20 formative years, Liesl Tommy’s biopic is also an intimate gift of love, rich in complexity,…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 08 Aug 2021

Stately as it is, Respect never quite becomes a “great film,” but Hudson, Whitaker, McDonald, Burgess and Maron ensure it’s never less…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 08 Aug 2021

Though Respect can feel a little soft in the drama department, it delivers the added pleasure of hearing Hudson re-create Franklin’s key…

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