Amazing Grace (2019)

"Franklin’s performance will blow you away, even as the intimate filmmaking ensures you feel every drop of sweat in the room—and pity the many people there whose garments look less than breathable."

"It's a lovely thing to sit in a cinema and not be asked to follow a story, but just to let waves of glorious noise wash over us. Amazing Grace is a joy from first note to last."

"It is a transcendent film."

"A triumph of timeless artistry over transitory obstacles; its very existence is a secular miracle."

"You get both the most lovely gaze a professional camera's ever laid upon Aretha Franklin and some of the mightiest singing she's ever laid on you."

"It's raw religion, and it's a treasure."

"Franklin's voice remains so pure and galvanic that [this] is one of the few movies you could watch with your eyes closed, though you would hardly want to."

"Amazing Grace restores a missing piece of cinema history. With the gestures it reveals, and the spirituality it captures, it gives us something else - an act of worship, reborn."

"Amazing Grace will not enter the pantheon of concert films - it's somewhat shapeless as a movie, and gives little sense of emotional insight into the performer. But it does contain moments of bliss..."