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2010
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2.4
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2.2
Theres no right way to do an adaptation, particularly a difficult to adapt work like this, but there are plenty of wrong ways, and Perrys film offers ..
Av Club
2.2
Perry has taken Shanges feminist word and movement portraits of disenfranchised African American women and turned those howls into...a maddeningly cho ..
EW
3.1
Perry tries to be faithful to the play and also to his own boldly and simply told stories, and the two styles dont fit together.
Rogerebert
1.5
Though the text of the playwrights most affecting poems is virtually intact, Perry has unmistakably wrestled Girls into the same soap opera mold of hi ..
Variety
1.9
For Colored Girlss undiluted hysteria would be completely obscene if it werent so unintentionally hilarious.
1.3
For Colored Girls may, in fact, be Perrys best film (not saying a lot, I know). Its certainly his first bid, as a director, for art house respectabili ..
0.5
Tyler Perry utterly butchers Ntozake Shanges theatrical tone poem to black female identity.
The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
It is a film destined to polarize. Many will hate it. Hopefully more will love it, or at least allow room for it, for its raw brutality, its extremes, ..
5.0
Shows a mastery of tone, a capacity to elicit strong performances and also to bring out different colors within those performances so that, when it al ..
San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
Tyler Perrys drama is beautifully acted but Ntozake Shanges multiple, interlocking narratives ultimately defy his efforts to bring them to the screen.
3.0
By casting a raft of magnetic actresses and focusing his work around their talents, Perry gives his film a power beyond the melodramatic twists and fl ..
Cinema Blend
3.0
Fans of the original may be dismayed by his often awkward adaptation, which turns too many of Shanges survivors into victims. But its equally likely t ..
Ny Daily News
1.3
The film is a mawkish mess, only occasionally alleviated by the performances or Shanges poetry.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
You have passages of great lyricism followed by somebody saying we should be there for each other. Ouch.
Philly
1.5
Though striving for artistic legitimacy in bringing Shanges incomparable play to the screen, Perry indulges his worst instincts for melodrama in For C ..
Village Voice
3.8
Perry aims high, and doesnt embarrass himself in tackling this iconic but dated play.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.5
A slice of life soap opera on what its like to be a black woman in America.
Sover
4.5
Perry benefits from the fire, heft, velocity, and lyricism of the language, but he also updates the material and makes it work onscreen, eliciting pow ..
Chicago Reader
2.8
The performance is a giant ache combined with top notch professionalism.
1.9
Monologues and melodrama rarely work in contemporary movies exploring social ills.
Usa Today
3.5
These performances are exceptional. While the structure of the film doesnt work very well, there is nothing at all wrong with the acting.
Lariat
3.5
Perry has assembled a formidable ensemble, including Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington ..
Cs Monitor
1.9
Shanges words retain their power despite the melodramatic incidents Perry has woven to fill in the spaces between poems, his flat, TV style direction ..
New York Post
0.5
Tyler Perry proves that he is even more ham handed and cartoonish with drama than he is with his incredibly popular so called comedies.
Film Journal International ..
2.5
The film comes off as one long litany of lament and tragedy that never fits together.
Az Central
3.1
The audience I saw it with didnt seem to know whether to clap when it was over or start taking Lipitor.
Boston
3.5
More may be lost than gained, but there are things of valueand it isnt as if the play itself ceases to exist just because its been committed to film.
Mountain X
1.5
inally, Perry has made a film that doesnt pander, that has something meaningful to say something actually worth hearing and that is more than merely w ..
2.5
The writer/director behind the exceedingly broad comedy of the Madea franchise approaches the hit 1970s Ntozake Shange play with a pragmatism that suc ..
Toronto Star
2.5
Hovering between theater and cinema, sociology and melodrama, poetry and narrative, Perrys version of the noted play lacks subtlety, seldom finding th ..
Emanuellevy
2.0
Perry crafts poorly paced soap opera, playing out in the most obvious and crass manner possible the situations that the poems subtly dance around. Sha ..
Guardian
1.5
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 ..
Salon
1.0
Dont care much for the gentle, fluid, mournful prose poetry of Ntozake Shange Then just wait a second until Anika Noni Rose finishes up swirling aroun ..
Movies
0.5
For Colored Girls feels like the cinematic equivalent to putting a garish reproduction of the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of your McMansion and call ..
Time
3.2
The film is repetitive, monotonous and, like its sources title, goes on way too long.
Boston Herald
2.5
Perrys awkwardly constructed screenplay and equally muddled direction is one metaphysical dilemma not even these strong, and strongly gifted, women ca ..
Mr Brown Movies
1.0
There are talented actresses here, struggling to make the material work, but theyre drowned by unpleasant moralizing and histrionic direction.
Las Vegas Weekly
0.5
Ham handed, obvious, overblown and pretentious, For Colored Girls is a plain disaster.
Detroit News
2.8
If you cant figure out whats going on there than youre not paying attention to the clues Perry hits the viewer over the head with.)
2.5
Perry gets points for persistence, yes, and for ambition. But thats not enuf.
Nj
3.5
A veritable whos who of A list African American actresses (Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg) populates For Colored Girls, and their performances keep th ..
E Online
2.5
The entire film is suffocated by an inflated sense of self worth we are making a crucial movie of great pedigree about major underreported issues is t ..
Film School Rejects
1.0
While gunning for the same empowering vibe as Waiting To Exhale, enduring this miserable effort from Tyler Perry is more like praying to expire.
Mirror
2.0
Well, thats one of many issues with the treatment of the subject matter.
Digital Spy
3.2
Opening up the play might work, if Perrys melodramatic intrusions contained a fraction of Shanges emotional dexterity. You can easily tell when her lo ..
Tamp A Bay
3.8
Big, brash and heartfelt, For Colored Girls flinches not an inch, confidently unapologetic in its broader flourishes and missteps and somehow even mor ..
Dustin Put Man
1.5
So lets just say that For Colored Girls is a barely competent film (which is a big step up for Perry), illuminated by luminous performances.
Hollywood And Fine
2.5
The juiced up hysterics are exhausting and unyielding in their shrill tone, making a fool out of the original work, degrading sobering expressions of ..
Brian Or Ndorf
2.5
Best and worst, good and bad are judgment calls that seem unusually difficult to apply here... strangest and most endlessly fascinating film.
Antagony & Ecstasy
2.5
Retains some of the inherent power of it source and features some strong performances in the process but never finds the narrative cohesion needed to ..
Hollywood Chicago
2.0
Action is missed thanks to poor camera work, the performances are bland, the characters are stale and, to top it all off, it concludes with an uninten ..
Shockya
2.0
So thickly does Perry lay on the sanctimony and self pity, you begin to wonder if its all a spoof. Stick a Wayans brother in there and you could call ..
Sky
3.2
No question, Perrys Girls is compelling and powerful. But its also a missed opportunity, one that fails to fully capitalize on mostly terrific perform ..
Mercury News
2.5
As often as Perrys melodramatic storytelling hits the mark (Thandie Newtons performance), it misses at least as often (Whoopi Goldbergs).
No La
4.5
The actresses quiet pain balances out penchant for exaggerated emotion.
Or Lando Weekly
0.5
For Colored Girls is so shamelessly terrible it would make a great midnight hoot fest, if you had the stomach to laugh at Shange or some of the best ( ..
Ny Mag
2.0
Its hardly surprising that, by the end of the film, there isnt a man in sight.
Future Movies
2.5
The thought provoking material about women paying a high price for making bad choices and ultimately finding their own voice may work on stage, but it ..
Entertainment Spectrum
3.8
For Colored Girls doesnt do justice to the play its based upon. However, the talent Tyler Perry has assembled here cannot be denied.
Qc Times
1.9
made what amounts to a tone deaf musical of womens hardships, one where stereotypes soliloquize rather than sing.
Boston Phoenix
1.9
Can a mid 70s play consisting of 20 monologues delivered by seven women survive the transition to movie screens in 2010 The short answer: not if its a ..
Boston Phoenix
3.0
Herein lies an invitation for us all to move beyond victimhood ... and, in some cases, simply to get over ourselves.
New York Time Out
3.8
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 ..
Reel Talk Online
1.5
This grave update of a 1975 play, which interweaves nine stories, wastes talents such as Janet Jackson and Thandie Newton.
Us Magazine
3.8
A lovely and moving film, at once Perrys most dynamic and his most subtle work.
The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
1.5
Tyler Perry is the most influential African American director since Spike Lee, and certainly the most financially successful ever, none of which can d ..
Metro Times
1.5
Perrys weakness for the lowest common denominator transforms both anger and affirmation into sludge, not great poetic cinema like Spielbergs The Color ..
Ny Press
2.2
Once again, favoring melodrama over reality, Perry overextends his bounds and delivers a poorly filmed series of worst case scenarios elevated to tole ..
Week In Rewind
1.5
The rich language of the ruminations are utterly disconnected from Perrys dialogue.
Abc News Go
0.0
I used to think there was nothing worse in modern moviemaking than Perrys unfunny, incompetent stooping for profit. It turns out that when he boldly a ..
MSN Movies
3.0
Loopy, ill paced, but often endearing, For Colored Girls owes everything to its powerhouse stable of actresses who manage to grab at the heart of Shan ..
The Diva Review
3.2
These words and these stories may still resonate with any woman who has struggled to love herself enough to expect and deserve love from others.
Movie Mom
2.5
The movie ends with a group hug, but it takes date rape, STDs, a down low husband, teen pregnancy, girlfriend beating, exorcism and even baby defenest ..
Gomemphis
2.5
To date, Tyler Perrys most nuanced, thoughtful and entertaining film is Why Did I Get Married.
Dwight Brown Ink
2.0
The centerpiece tragedy ... is so incompetently and appallingly staged that the film literally jumps the shark before your eyes no recovery is possibl ..
New York Metro Mix
4.0
Director Tyler Perry has taken on a huge task in bringing Ntozake Shanges stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is ..
James Wegg Review
2.5
Who could imagine, 35 years on, For Colored Girls would become a star studded mess of a movie directed by a black, male Hollywood mogul
Seattle Times
0.5
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.
Big Hollywood
3.1
Perry uses a very heavy hand to create melodrama when the material is dramatic enough.
1.5
Perry gives with one hand and takes with the other the thrill of seeing these actresses do their stuff is decimated by Perrys insistence on welding a ..
Windy City Media Group
4.5
An ambitious adaptation of an iconic feminist work and bold experiment for a straightforward filmmaker whos historically struggled to balance comedy w ..
1.9
Any time excels in a scene, its in spite of Perrys uninspired contributions behind the camera and not because of them.
3.8
Its not a perfect vehicle, but the one thing that stands out is the amazing acting by the ensemble. If anything, the performances outweigh whatever fl ..
Bvon Movies
4.4
All that was missing was a pistol packing granny in drag, chirrun!
3.5
pulls off disturbing moments by finding conviction and vulnerability in his performers.
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