Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman

While the jokes are obvious and the romance formulaic, a good-natured sensibility saves the film from being too hokey. The individual parts may not work, but the sum remains entertaining. Full Review

Half inspired and half eye-rollingly terrible. Full Review

An ungainly hodgepodge of vaudeville-style comedy, turgid soap-operatics, and joyful epiphanies of gospel-flavored uplift. Full Review

These characters, which Perry worked into the narrative from other stage performances, may have been entertaining in those venues, but they undermine the film. Full Review

Sure, I laughed. Yes, I cried. But mostly I just wanted to throw up. Full Review