For Colored Girls Reviews

Movie Reviews

• The film is repetitive, monotonous and, like its source's title, goes on way too long

  Review rate : B- by James Verniere [Boston Herald ]

• Perry dilutes the power of their original archetypal roles, having drained almost all authenticity out of this tale of womanhood and hardship

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• It's powerfully ridiculous and ridiculously powerful

  by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]

• it's a movie to be seen for its performances

  Review rate : C by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News ]

• It is a film destined to polarize

  by Betsy Sharkey [LA Times ]

• an ambitious emotional epic that interweaves the lives of nine women in New York City

  by Robert W. Butler [Kansas City Star ]

• a serious achievement

  by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• a mostly dead serious (and often seriously deadly) expansion of Shange's play

  by Misha Berson [Seattle Times ]

• a fine drama

  by Bill Gibron [Filmcritic.com ]

• "For Colored Girls" is relentless in its sorrow, with little relief

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]
• Reviewed by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]
• Reviewed by Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
• Reviewed by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

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