Well this seems to have just come out with almost no promo, unless there’s something I’ve missed.
Quite ironically the best thing I can say about it is, great gowns… beautiful gowns.
Firstly it does NOT need to be two and a half hours long under any circumstance. J-Hud is generally good with the material she’s been given, although it’s unfortunate because she doesn’t look or sound anything like Aretha (who does?), yet doesn’t quite embody her spirit either, and you’ve got to have at least one of those three things for it to properly work.
It’s really just quite a bland screenplay compared to a lot of other musician biopics.