M. Night Shyamalan’s latest hybrid of drama, horror, and suspense is a turgid tangle of a story that offers very little of anything worthwhile in the various genres it contends to belong to.

“Snake Eyes” plays like an early-seventies James Bond knock-off that desperately wants to be something more tangible and important than it ultimately is.

Following the rise of the legendary Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her vo...