For Colored Girls
Lionsgate | Release Date: November 5, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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11
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10
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60
SalonMatt Zoller SeitzNov 5, 2010
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. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNov 5, 2010
"This is a woman's trip," it is announced in Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls, and how you respond to those words will likely determine how you respond to the film itself. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonNov 3, 2010
These ladies - even at their weakest - carry themselves with the confidence of winners, and we cling to their strength like a life raft. Read full review
60
Time OutLisa RosmanNov 3, 2010
But something compelling happens here that shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. Raging in Shange's still startlingly fluid verse like witches casting spells, this powerful cast (especially Jackson, Goldberg and Phylicia Rashad) reaches bravely, if sometimes clumsily, for emotional accountability. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenNov 10, 2010
Though he has stepped up his game, Perry's plainspoken, unsubtle aesthetic is an uncomfortable match for the fragility of Shonge's speeches, and scenes abruptly switch between the language of Perry's scripted continuity sequences and sudden poetic soliloquies. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchKevin C. JohnsonNov 5, 2010
In the end, the movie is still a poetic injustice. Read full review
50
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNov 5, 2010
The hard, cold truth is that the hard, cold For Colored Girls is just plain difficult to fall in love with, regardless of the amount of passion Perry poured into it or how much meaning he's freighted it with. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNov 3, 2010
There's no question that Black women are underrepresented in movies. There's also no question that when they get a chance to perform, they deserve a better movie than For Colored Girls. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsNov 4, 2010
There's no right way to do an adaptation, particularly a difficult-to-adapt work like this, but there are plenty of wrong ways, and Perry's film offers a casebook of things-not-to-do. Read full review
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Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumNov 3, 2010
Perry has taken Shange's feminist word-and-movement portraits of disenfranchised African-American women and turned those howls into...a maddeningly choppy mess of a Tyler Perry movie. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 31, 2010
The result falls squarely in familiar territory, better acted and better lit, perhaps, but more inauthentically melodramatic than ever. Read full review
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