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Mary Pols, Time: POOR "...a dated horror show bordering on parody.... feels like the cinematic equivalent to putting a garish reproduction of the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of your McMansion and calling it art." (Read the full review...) 726 words, 11/05/10 Jake Coyle, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "...plays very much like a typical Perry soap opera, with the exception that every now and then his characters spout a poetic soliloquy.... a missed opportunity..." (Read the full review...) 744 words, 11/04/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: POOR (cg) "...wastes talents such as Janet Jackson and Thandie Newton.... the actress' poetic soliloquies inspire groans, and the movie's male characters are almost all villainous." (Read the full review...) 71 words, 11/04/10 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: FAIR (cg) "Perry has taken Shange's feminist word-and-movement portraits of disenfranchised African-American women and turned those howls into... a maddeningly choppy mess..." (Read the full review...) 232 words, 11/05/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: WEAK (cg) "...strained soap opera.... Perry has wrung the beauty and truth out of the original in almost every way possible." (Read the full review...) 477 words, 11/05/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The soliloquies don't fit, but taken as free-standing dramatic entries, they're strongly done. So there are elements here, but not a fully rounded film." (Read the full review...) 602 words, 11/04/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...working with fine performers like Ms. Elise, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad and Kerry Washington, Perry sings the song the way he likes it -- with force, feeling and tremendous sincerity." (Read the full review...) 1,232 words, 11/05/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Fans of the original may be dismayed by Perry's often-awkward adaptation... But it's equally likely that his blunt, emotional approach -- using her words to create his own melodrama -- will connect with a new audience." (Read the full review...) 365 words, 11/05/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a film destined to polarize. Many will hate it. Hopefully more will love it, or at least allow room for it, for its raw brutality, its extremes, its difficult truths.... remarkable... unforgettable." (Read the full review...) 997 words, 11/05/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "Shange's words retain their power despite the melodramatic incidents Perry has woven... shrill and manipulative." (Read the full review...) 429 words, 11/05/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: WEAK (cg) "Aiming for a piece with the raw impact of 'Precious,' on which he served as executive producer, Perry ends up with 134 minutes of misjudged intensity." (Read the full review...) 565 words, 11/05/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: WEAK (cg) "...as amateurish as Perry's previous nine films but possibly even more overwrought. This is what art, made by the artless, looks like." (Read the full review...) 317 words, 11/05/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: POOR "...so shamelessly terrible it would make a great midnight hoot-fest, if you had the stomach to laugh at Shange or some of the best (and most underused) actresses of their generation..." (Read the full review...) 281 words, 11/08/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The soliloquies don't fit, but taken as free-standing dramatic entries, they're strongly done. So there are elements here, but not a fully rounded film." (Read the full review...) 602 words, 11/04/10 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...a calamitous adaptation.... Perry indulges his worst instincts for melodrama... shoehorning Ntozake Shange's text into his own tawdry narrative..." (Read the full review...) 751 words, 11/03/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: MODERATE (cg) "...approaches the hit 1970s Ntozake Shange play with a pragmatism that succeeds in form but not in function." (Read the full review...) 577 words, 11/05/10 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: POOR (cg) "...a mawkish mess, only occasionally alleviated by the performances or Shange's poetry." (Read the full review...) 644 words, 11/05/10 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: POOR (cg) "Tyler Perry, the king of middlebrow African-American pap, is way out of his league..." (Read the full review...) 241 words, 11/04/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: POOR (cg) "The real question isn't whether the movie is any good. It's why - and for what theoretical audience - did Tyler Perry make it?" (Read the full review...) 658 words, 11/05/10 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Shange's poetic flow gets choked by Perry's stilted prose.... This said, many of the individual performances in Perry's film are moving beyond words." (Read the full review...) 567 words, 11/05/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...shows a mastery of tone, a capacity to elicit strong performances and also to bring out different colors within those performances... This is smart, lovely work." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 11/05/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a piece of passion, poetry and ambition.... Perry's great gift to this unfilmable play is getting it on the screen, his sharp eye for casting and his evident affection and sympathy for black womanhood..." (Read the full review...) 615 words, 11/05/10 Lisa Kennedy, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...flawed but packs a punch.... a bold example of an artist's reach exceeding his grasp. But it's hard not to applaud his determination, and to grade for ambition." (Read the full review...) 575 words, 11/12/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: MODERATE (cg) "Perry mistakes overwrought melodrama for effective drama. It's not an acceptable substitute." (Read the full review...) 490 words, 11/05/10 Randy Myers, Dallas Morning News: VERY GOOD (cg) "You've got to admire Tyler Perry's gumption.... If only his filmmaking talent matched his well-intentioned ambition." (Read the full review...) 603 words, 11/05/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's astounding. It's terrible. It's astounding. Then terrible again. It's too much -- too much screaming, too much crying, too much preaching, too much reaching, too much healing, too much feeling..." (Read the full review...) 1,015 words, 11/05/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...despite its dire plot points, there is hope being served. It comes from the support of other women, and a few men, and from the strength one gains from facing down demons..." (Read the full review...) 456 words, 11/05/10 Misha Berson, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "...smart women, foolish filmmaking." (Read the full review...) 382 words, 11/05/10 Kevin Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "...gets points for not being the same silly minstrel show Perry has put forth a few too many times. But in the end, the movie is still a poetic injustice." (Read the full review...) 513 words, 11/05/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (cg) "...blessed with a Murderer's Row of black female actors, each tearing ferociously into Shange's words and gamely hanging on through Perry's." (Read the full review...) 506 words, 11/04/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: POOR (cg) "The great sadness here is that the actresses involved -- and the actors, although men are near-universally vile in this film -- deliver far more than the film is worth." (Read the full review...) 293 words, 11/05/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: POOR (cg) "...relentless, suffocating melodrama.... an example of a filmmaker's tackling tricky, complex material that is way over his head." (Read the full review...) 425 words, 11/05/10
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...a calamitous adaptation.... Perry indulges his worst instincts for melodrama... shoehorning Ntozake Shange's text into his own tawdry narrative..." (Read the full review...) 751 words, 11/03/10 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a massive step forward for Perry, an indication that though he'll never stray from his melodrama roots, he may start telling those stories with more grace." (Read the full review...) 820 words, 11/05/10 Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: WEAK (cg) "...a tone-deaf musical of women's hardships, one where stereotypes soliloquize rather than sing." (Read the full review...) 156 words, 11/04/10 Keith Phipps, AV Club: FAIR (cg) "...being caught between eras isn't the film's real problem: it's the way the film keeps muffling voices that want to sing." (Read the full review...) 510 words, 11/04/10 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: WEAK (cg) "It isn't news that Perry is no cinematic lyricist, but to call this style theatrical or televisual insults the great artists of the stage and small screen." (Read the full review...) 925 words, 10/29/10 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: POOR (cg) "Tyler Perry, the king of middlebrow African-American pap, is way out of his league..." (Read the full review...) 241 words, 11/04/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "...poetry without motion." (Read the full review...) 676 words, 11/05/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: EXCELLENT (cg) "...an extraordinary ode to the lives of women." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 11/03/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...working with fine performers like Ms. Elise, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad and Kerry Washington, Perry sings the song the way he likes it -- with force, feeling and tremendous sincerity." (Read the full review...) 1,232 words, 11/05/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a film destined to polarize. Many will hate it. Hopefully more will love it, or at least allow room for it, for its raw brutality, its extremes, its difficult truths.... remarkable... unforgettable." (Read the full review...) 997 words, 11/05/10 Matt Zoller Seitz, Salon: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "I'd rather watch a filmmaker attempt to be audacious and impassioned and fall on his face, as Perry does here, than watch mumbly-mouthed bromance characters lounge on sofas and insult each other's video-game prowess." (Read the full review...) 2,477 words, 11/04/10
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: WEAK "Perry has unmistakably wrestled 'Girls' into the same soap-opera mold of his earlier pics, connecting the passionate testimonials with cliched characterizations and two-bit psychoanalysis." (Read the full review...) 1,064 words, 10/22/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: WEAK "The hackneyed melodramas get Perry from one poem to the next but run roughshod over the collective sense of who these women are." (Read the full review...) 789 words, 10/22/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a film destined to polarize. Many will hate it. Hopefully more will love it, or at least allow room for it, for its raw brutality, its extremes, its difficult truths.... remarkable... unforgettable." (Read the full review...) 997 words, 11/05/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "...a major artistic disappointment.... the only reason -- but it's a good one -- to see 'For Colored Girls' the movie is the high-caliber acting of a large ensemble of gifted African-American actresses..." (Read the full review...) 1,603 words, 10/25/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...working with fine performers like Ms. Elise, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad and Kerry Washington, Perry sings the song the way he likes it -- with force, feeling and tremendous sincerity." (Read the full review...) 1,232 words, 11/05/10
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