The Women (2008) Critic Reviews

As a well-crafted, well-written and well-acted entertainment, it drew me in and got its job done.Read the full review

This is Diane English's directing debut, and it shows. Also in evidence is her familiarity with television. The movie is shot like a TV show, with frequent intercut close-ups.Read the full review

Very earnest, often engaging, but not quite as much of a pleasure as the original.Read the full review

The film repeatedly sacrifices dramatic punch for political correctness.Read the full review

The movie is a feminist lesson instead of what it should have been (and once was): a tough, synthetic, high-gloss entertainment that wears its heart on its lacquered fingernails.Read the full review

Becomes unfocused as it stumbles over all the points it wants to make.Read the full review

The Women is less about getting even than about inspiring that same mushy sense of female empowerment you might find in a Tyler Perry meller, complete with manic mood swings and full-blown diva moments.Read the full review

Defanged and drippy, the remake of 1939's The Women seems to have been made for the dullard granddaughters of the sassy, sharp society matrons in George Cukor's campy original.Read the full review

The movie is a work of ambivalence. Is English making fun of these women? Or is she making a pilot for Lifetime?Read the full review