Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 8, 2020 3.0/4.0

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

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 7, 2019 3/4

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

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Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online Sep 11, 2017 B+

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.

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Sean Burns Philadelphia Weekly May 3, 2015

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

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John Hanlon Big Hollywood Jan 6, 2013 0.5/5

"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.

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Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Feb 25, 2012 5/10

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.

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Feb 6, 2012 2/4

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

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Trevor Johnston Time Out Nov 16, 2011 3/5

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Ben Rawson-Jones Digital Spy Jul 14, 2011 2/5

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.

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Dave White Movies.com Apr 4, 2011 1/5

Almost everyone in the cast is too talented for this.

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Coco Forsythe Future Movies UK Feb 18, 2011 4/10

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.

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Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope Dec 31, 2010 B

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

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Linda Cook KWQC-TV (Iowa) Dec 14, 2010 3/4

'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.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Dec 14, 2010 C

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

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David Edwards Daily Mirror (UK) Dec 10, 2010 1/5

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

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Tim Robey Daily Mail (UK) Dec 9, 2010 2/5

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

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Phelim O'Neill Guardian Dec 9, 2010 2/5

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...

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Karen Krizanovich Radio Times Dec 9, 2010 2/5

At least an interesting failure.

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Simon Braund Empire Magazine Dec 8, 2010 2/5

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

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Elliott Noble Sky Cinema Dec 8, 2010 2/5

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.

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