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By Mary Pols (197) for Time (1,811) on 04 Nov 2010

For Colored Girls feels like the cinematic equivalent to putting a garish reproduction of the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of your McMansion…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 04 Nov 2010

It's hard to imagine that any self-respecting man would want to sit through two hours - let alone two minutes - of such caustic man-bashing…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 04 Nov 2010

With such a large cast, none of the actors is able to turn her character into a fully realized person…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 03 Nov 2010

Perry's great gift to this unfilmable play is getting it on the screen, his sharp eye for casting and his evident affection and sympathy for…

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By Steve Persall (1,105) for Tampa Bay Times (1,287) on 03 Nov 2010

For Colored Girls is blessed with a Murderer's Row of black female actors, each tearing ferociously into Shange's words and gamely hanging…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 03 Nov 2010

Perry tries to be faithful to the play and also to his own boldly and simply told stories, and the two styles don't fit together…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 03 Nov 2010

These ladies - even at their weakest - carry themselves with the confidence of winners, and we cling to their strength like a life raft…

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By Lisa Rosman (132) for Time Out (7,510) on 03 Nov 2010

But something compelling happens here that shouldn't be dismissed out of hand…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 03 Nov 2010

There's no question that Black women are underrepresented in movies…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Nov 2010

Perry has taken Shange's feminist word-and-movement portraits of disenfranchised African-American women and turned those howls into...a maddeningly…

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By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Nov 2010

The greatest frustration-not just in For Colored Girls, but in Perry's entire oeuvre-is witnessing talented (and often criminally underemployed)…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Oct 2010

The result falls squarely in familiar territory, better acted and better lit, perhaps, but more inauthentically melodramatic than ever…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Oct 2010

(Perry) style is too crude and stagy for Shange's transformative evocation of black female life, and his moralizing strikes exactly the wrong…

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