Whoopi Goldberg is wonderful in the lead, Danny Glover and Margaret Avery are sublime, and watch out for a pre-온라인카지노추천-fame Oprah Winfrey playing very out of character.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2024

Celie’s journey, though wrought with hardships, is thought-provoking, educational, nerve-wracking and, finally, wholesome and triumphant.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 1, 2024

The movie gains in strength the longer it plays out.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 26, 2023

It’s clear that no matter the time, Walker’s novel will always be a powerful and necessary story to tell.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 15, 2023

For all the rave reviews and royal treatment The Color Purple is receiving, it is unfortunate that it depicts black men in such an odious and degrading manner.

| Nov 14, 2023

I anxiously awaited the coming of this movie. Last week I saw it, and I was not disappointed. Indeed, when it concluded, I stood up and cheered.

| May 31, 2023

It is a great, warm, hard, unforgiving, triumphant movie, and there is not a scene that does not shine with the love of the people who made it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 31, 2023

The Color Purple is easily the best movie of the year.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 31, 2023

It's not the color purple we notice so much as the heavy hand of the filmmaker.

| May 31, 2023

Spielberg's strategy was to broaden Walker's cunning simplifications, and in blowing up her plot, Spielberg not only makes its flaws more visible, he also uncovers, beneath the feminist rhetoric, the melodrama at its heart.

| May 31, 2023

The Color Purple is not a tearjerker in the traditional sense. It doesn't cheat or manipulate, but provokes a reaction on the strength of its story. The characters come to mean so much that their eventual happiness is profoundly moving and poignant.

| May 31, 2023

Although the combination of his sensibilities and Miss Walker's amounts to a colossal mismatch, Mr. Spielberg's Color Purple manages to have momentum, warmth and staying power all the same.

| May 31, 2023

Spielberg turns The Color Purple into a four-hankie tearjerker that reaffirms the importance of love in such a tender, inoffensive way that it could have been directed by the late Walt Disney.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2023

For this critic, The Color Purple now ranks with Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Spielberg's best.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 31, 2023

I didn't really expect to see "my" movie made. And I was right.

| May 31, 2023

If Whoopi Goldberg isn't a star after this film, there's no justice. She becomes Celie.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 31, 2023

Every scene is slicked up to be a stunner, no stop is left unpulled, no camera move is left untracked. What’s missing is a deep, resounding reason to have made this film for its own sweet self.

| May 31, 2023

The film is largely true to the book's story line, but the spirit of the novel is missing.

| May 31, 2023

Whatever its faults, whatever its excesses, The Color Purple will make you cry and cry some more. It's an important film, heart- warming, heartbreaking and heartfelt -- a very American saga.

| May 31, 2023

The casting was miraculous. Few newcomers can so dominate the screen as Whoopi Goldberg, heretofore a standup comic.

| May 31, 2023