2021 · drama · biography · music
Respect (2021)
Directed by Liesl Tommy2h 25m2021
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
Our read: Respect (2021) (2021) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · biography · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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