Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman

A very curious and very entertaining mix, the Labradoodle of inspirational romantic-comedy-melodramas.Read Full Review »

A bad movie so over-the-top that at moments it's almost good - or, at least, more arresting than it has any right to be.Read Full Review »

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.Read Full Review »

Half inspired and half eye-rollingly terrible.Read Full Review »

As lousy as it is, Diary of a Mad Black Woman is weirdly fascinating.Read Full Review »

Blows to the head are delivered with more subtlety than the message of Diary of a Mad Black Woman.Read Full Review »

Rote melodrama.Read 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.Read Full Review »

So oblivious to genre that it occupies its own special stylistic niche, if you can imagine such a thing as a romantic revenge farce.Read Full Review »

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