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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Skip ‘Respect’ and revisit ‘Amazing Grace’ doc instead, critics echo

    Critics review “Free Guy,” a video game-inspired action movie that stars Ryan Reynolds as a naive bank teller named Guy; “Don’t Breathe 2,” a followup to the 2016 film about a blind veteran who can’t see you but can hear you; “Respect,” which…

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 13, 2021 • 15m Listen

    Critics review “Free Guy,” a video game-inspired action movie that stars Ryan Reynolds as a naive bank teller named Guy; “Don’t Breathe 2,” a followup to the 2016 film about a blind veteran who can’t see you but can hear you; “Respect,” which follows Aretha Franklin (played by Jennifer Hudson) as a child singing in her dad’s church choir to an adult music superstar; “Coda,” about a child who’s the only hearing member of her death family, and she must decide between her own career pursuits or staying with her parents when the family’s fishing business is endangered.

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      Tim Grierson

      senior U.S. critic for Screen International and author of “This Is How You Make a Movie”

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      Katie Walsh

      film reviewer for the Tribune News Service, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wrap

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    The full episode

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    Can the pandemic be a turning point in how we value motherhood?
    1. 0:00Skip ‘Respect’ and revisit ‘Amazing Grace’ doc instead, critics echoYou’re reading this
    2. 15:43Will the pandemic change how we value motherhood? Four moms on juggling home and work life
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