Michelle Jordan's God-fearing mother resented her for being around, while her "Uncle" Reggie enjoyed having her around all too much. As she later tells a friend, "That ain't my home. It's just a place where part of me is buried."

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

Kimberly Elise gives a mind-boggling performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 16, 2012

The film raises the questions it hopes churches will answer. It's clearly designed to open discussion on these questions, and to encourage churches to discuss sexual abuse.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2006

... an enjoyable and competently made film that will appeal to secular-minded moviegoers as well as the choir.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 29, 2005

As with a good sermon, it is engaging, and strives to inspire and provide food for thought. Audiences going in knowing what to expect shouldn't be disappointed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2004

It sounds like a rather overt Christian message, but the film is actually more of a cautionary melodrama with religious sermons sprinkled in between the various scenes

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 25, 2004

A very interesting, if not always successful drama that is also part revivalist sermon.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2004

while director Michael Schultz's work is unsubtle...it's guaranteed to find a sympathetic audience, much in the same way Jakes' plainspoken sermons connect with his followers.

| Oct 23, 2004

A monochromatic melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2004

As a film it plays like a heavy-handed morality tale one might come across on a middling cable network.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2004

A case of preaching to the choir.

| Oct 22, 2004

The talented players work hard to sell it, but all too often Woman is over-intellectualized and self-consciously arty.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2004

There is little to like about many of the hard characters we meet. Yet the film has a core generosity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 22, 2004

It is more a public service announcement than a movie, but it has to be more useful to its audience than a summer blockbuster offering Halle Berry's tips on how to use a bullwhip.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 22, 2004

Woman boasts an unexpected edginess, as well as a terrific performance from Kimberly Elise.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 22, 2004

For all the tough-minded talk and frank portraits of inner-city life... the film is not altogether convincing.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 22, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2004

It offers a compelling portrait of human tragedy and the journey to redemption.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 21, 2004