A biopic of the Queen of Soul was never going to satisfy everyone — but Jennifer Hudson captures the power of Franklin's songs Respect, in which Hudson stars, doesn’t — can’t — entirely do justice to ...

Give her the proper respect: Jennifer Hudson stuns with her performance singing and inhabiting the life of musical royalty, even if the new Aretha Franklin biopic leans conventionally commonplace.

It has not been an easy year for theater lovers, who have mostly made do with well-filmed performances of shows like “Hamilton” and “David Byrne’s American Utopia.” In contrast to those projects, ...