For Colored Girls

"There are elements here, but not a fully rounded film."

"What saves this film is the acting, which provides depth in a movie that blunders in all other departments."

"A thunderous storm of a movie."

"This is smart, lovely work."

"Nobody gets spared the expected Perry moralising that removes any ambiguity from Shange’s work, and makes every development a matter of right and wrong."

"Tyler Perry is occasionally undone by his penchant for melodrama, but it serves him well in this searing adaptation..."

"Whatever stumbles there may be, they are offset by moments when For Colored Girls soars."

"Perry never solves the stage-to-screen translation problem. But the path he has chosen is as intriguing as it is irksome, and it works better than you might expect."

"Perry has no gift for complexity—no visual sophistication or sense of reality. He makes legit New York City streets seem like sets, extras look like obvious props, danger contrived."

"It’s Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and Razzie. It’s astounding. It’s terrible. It’s astounding. Then terrible again."