Get ready for ‘CODA,’ the feel-good movie that will emotionally destroy you

My first review of “CODA,” Siân Heder’s sublime coming-of-age story of a child of Deaf adults, came right after watching it on the opening night of this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival and consisted of a message sent to a colleague containing the sobbing emoji repeated three times. “CODA” warrants at least half a dozen sobbing emojis, followed by a dozen hearts and a couple of bouquets of flowers and, I don’t know, maybe a peach and an eggplant for the number of times the movie emphasizes the parents’ spectacularly healthy sex life. You might find yourself in the film’s final 20 minutes begging for mercy as the story careens from a heart-to-heart talk between mother and daughter to a beautiful moment between father and daughter to the use of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” in a way that literally embodies the lyrics “tears and fears and feeling proud / To say, ‘I love you’ right out loud.” But you will not mind because Heder has earned the right to destroy you emotionally. Bernardo, or, should I say — as he does — Ber-narrrrrdo also pairs Ruby with the cute boy she’s been crushing on for a duet of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “You’re All I Need to Get By.” It pretty much guarantees that they’ll fall in love because, singing that song, how could they not?