Where Perry soars is in his longstanding willingness to jump fully into issues.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

A lovely and moving film, at once Perry's most dynamic and his most subtle work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2019

Writer/director Tyler Perry is probably used to taking heat from the critics for his films, but he can rest knowing that his latest movie For Colored Girls... is his best film yet. Even though that might not be attributed to his direction or writing.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 11, 2017

And yet the film remains strangely watchable, even when it's gone bonkers. Especially when it's gone bonkers.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

"For Colored Girls" features a lot of heartache and pain, but lacks any sense of purpose. It sacrifices depth for despair and suffers because of it.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 6, 2013

Best" and "worst", "good" and "bad" are judgment calls that seem unusually difficult to apply here... [Tyler Perry's] strangest and most endlessly fascinating film.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 25, 2012

Perry's awkwardly constructed screenplay and equally muddled direction is one 'metaphysical dilemma' not even these strong, and strongly gifted, women can conquer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 6, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Tyler Perry movies certainly have their place in society, as they undoubtedly have a strong moral core and are made with noble intentions. On the evidence of For Colored Girls though, he should leave the serious drama alone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2011

Almost everyone in the cast is too talented for this.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 4, 2011

It's refreshing to see an all black cast, in a film that places black women's stories front and centre; it's just a shame that the stories are such downers.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 18, 2011

These performances are exceptional. While the structure of the film doesn't work very well, there is nothing at all wrong with the acting.

| Original Score: B | Dec 31, 2010

'For Colored Girls' doesn't do justice to the play it's based upon. However, the talent Tyler Perry has assembled here cannot be denied.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 14, 2010

A slice-of-life soap opera on what it's like to be a black woman in America.

| Original Score: C | Dec 14, 2010

While gunning for the same empowering vibe as Waiting To Exhale, enduring this miserable effort from Tyler Perry is more like praying to expire.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 10, 2010

Excruciating when it's bad, which is far too often, but a brave failure in lots of ways.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 9, 2010

Perry crafts poorly paced soap opera, playing out in the most obvious and crass manner possible the situations that the poems subtly dance around. Shange's original text...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 9, 2010

At least an interesting failure.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 9, 2010

Tyler Perry's drama is beautifully acted but Ntozake Shange's multiple, interlocking narratives ultimately defy his efforts to bring them to the screen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2010

So thickly does Perry lay on the sanctimony and self-pity, you begin to wonder if it's all a spoof. Stick a Wayans brother in there and you could call it Tragic Movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2010