100 San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle The effect is like watching an opera without music. Or a musical drama in which no one sings. These departures from a realistic convention never feel like static set pieces - that's the great success of the film and of the poems themselves. Read full review
88 Charlotte Observer | Lawrence Toppman The writer-director waited until he had the clout, budget and prestige to attract a top-flight cast, then turned Colored Girls into a movie with a little less darkness but plenty of heart and guts. Read full review
75 Orlando Sentinel | Roger Moore 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 black womanhood, even in movies in which he doesn't don a dress. Read full review
65 Movieline | Michelle Orange Perry weaves together not just the individual stories but their arcs, sustaining the emotional tenor across the progress of nine lives. Read full review