Boo! A Madea Halloween is a movie that shouldn't exist.

| Original Score: 1.7/5 | Jan 8, 2020

The film spirals into supposedly funny, but actually vindictive, violent fantasy.

| Sep 18, 2019

Like the trick-or-treating scene, Perry the director doesn't know when to exit.

| Original Score: C | Jan 15, 2019

Boo! feels like a one-note television sketch that runs on and on and never really goes anywhere. This isn't perceptive nor inspired comedy; it's lazy, self-referential, and tired.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 20, 2018

It seems with this film that [Perry] is possibly going a different direction with the Madea franchise and I don't like it.

| Nov 13, 2018

Indeed, Boo! A Madea Halloween screams of being a cruel trick for the mis-TREAT-ment of Perry enthusiasts eagerly willing to embrace this piece of throwaway holiday hokum.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 9, 2018

Just another cheap Tyler Perry sitcom film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2018

On paper, everything Tyler Perry does is not only smart, but it's also important. At it's best, you have films like 'Madea's Family Reunion', at it's worst, you have this film.

| May 9, 2018

A heavily moralizing comedy that wants to be a horror comedy, but is barely a horror film and only sometimes a comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2017

Though this isn't a well-crafted movie by any means, when it works, and it does so intermittently, it's legitimately funny.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 5, 2017

The best of all the Madea films.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 17, 2016

No matter how many films Perry writes, directs, produces, and stars in, he's not especially interested in getting better at it.

| Original Score: C | Nov 2, 2016

Instead of running full force with the conceit, Perry's own directorial limitations hinder the finished product.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 2, 2016

Isn't a bad movie by any stretch, but it is Tyler Perry's most unfocused and tonally inconsistent.

| Oct 30, 2016

By removing most of the "Go with God" material, the faith-based filmmaker has created his most consistent mainstream comedy to date.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2016

The fans will probably be pleased, but the most interesting thing about this one is how Perry finesses playing scenes with himself in three different roles.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2016

Boo! is certainly the most watchable Madea movie I've seen in a long time, even though I get the feeling Perry still doesn't know how to direct for the screen.

| Oct 28, 2016

Dropping Madea into a comic Halloween adventure should have been a recipe for fun. Dropping her into one that recycles jokes and celebrates the virtues of beating children proves to be the exact opposite of fun.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 28, 2016

While it's Madea's entire schtick to be over-the-top, even minor characters lacked any and all nuance in their actions.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 27, 2016

Excepting Perry's performance as Brian, the film is chockablock with terrible actors, and the jokes he gives his inferior cast to work with are stinkers.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Oct 27, 2016