For Colored Girls (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

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From left, Kerry Washington, Phylicia Rashad and Anika Noni Rose in “For Colored Girls.”
A Powerful Chorus Harmonizing ‘Dark Phrases of Womanhood’
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: November 4, 2010

Tyler Perry has been led out to critical slaughter so many times, it might seem a wonder that he continues to make movies. Except that Mr. Perry addresses his movies to black audiences and, until recently, has shown relatively little interest in crossing over. His enormous commercial success with a mainly black audience and the often ferociously hostile reviews from mostly white critics might seem symptomatic of an insurmountable racial divide. Black people love him and white people don’t get him, and that sort of thing, which might be somewhat true but ignores that another important dividing line runs along taste and not color. More