A genuinely moving, funny, inspiring, and heartfelt film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

Disappointing overall, I Can Do Bad All By Myself falls short in comparison to some of Perry's other films and the level of excellence both technically and from a storytelling standpoint.

| Nov 8, 2019

I've never been a fan of Perry's Madea. I will concede this is probably the best use of the character, but the comic relief still takes away from some potentially powerful dramatic moments.

| Original Score: C | May 16, 2019

Too pat by a half during the finale, but Tyler Perry shows a maturity as a filmmaker that would pave the way for arguably his best picture, 2010's "For Colored Girls."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 26, 2013

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

Taraji P. Henson is absolutely staggering and wonderful... this, people, is what inspirational cinema is supposed to look like.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 15, 2012

Contrived, sentimental, tonally bipolar, and as predictable as clockwork, this latest from chitlin' circuit impressario Tyler Perry is just a fat slab of ecstatic entertainment.

| Oct 2, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2009

I Can Do Bad All By Myself may not be a model of tonal restraint, but it's well acted, it's funny, the music is phenomenal, and the religion is sincere.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 21, 2009

Perry sticks to his storytelling principles, doing what he does so well.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2009

Tyler Perry's latest crackles with electricity, thanks to heaps of boffo acting talent, high-octane musical interludes, and the most easy-to-root-for electrocution scene since Ernest Goes to Jail.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 17, 2009

Lurches around for nearly two hours before concluding that all its heroine needed all along was a good (and hunky) man and Jesus.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 16, 2009

Taraji P. Henson is the Mary J. Blige of film.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 16, 2009

Narratively and grammatically dim redemption pap.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 16, 2009

Tyler Perry does good all by himself, but having Henson on board helps.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 15, 2009

If the Atlanta impresario is just bored with cranking out two adaptations a year of his earlier stage work, the audience is getting restless, too.

| Sep 15, 2009

It is easy to knock the Tyler Perry formula, but you have to give the man credit: He knows how to create meaty roles for women.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 15, 2009

Though no one would cite him for the cinematic qualities of his visually pedestrian films, Perry is a master conductor of emotions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2009

Mr. Perry has his moviemaking machine running smoothly, which is to say somewhat predictably.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2009

Unashamedly fond of mixing messages of vengeance and piety, Perry nevertheless manages to reduce the tonal whiplash, so that this newest entry glides a little more easily from broad laughs to teary anguish and finally sweeping uplift.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2009