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By Michelle Orange (458) for Movieline (883) on 04 Nov 2010

Perry weaves together not just the individual stories but their arcs, sustaining the emotional tenor across the progress of nine lives…

Review of For Colored Girls (2010)

By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 04 Nov 2010

It's too much too-much. The audience I saw it with didn't seem to know whether to clap when it was over or start taking Lipitor…

Review of For Colored Girls (2010)

By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 04 Nov 2010

At its best, Shange's work is a lyric journey through the storm to the rainbow…

Review of For Colored Girls (2010)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Nov 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…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 04 Nov 2010

Kimberly Elise gives the best performance as a beleaguered woman with an abusive boyfriend (Michael Ealy)…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 04 Nov 2010

Aiming for a piece with the raw impact of Precious, on which he served as executive producer, he (Perry) ends up with 134 minutes of misjudged…

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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…

Review of For Colored Girls (2010)

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…

Review of For Colored Girls (2010)

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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