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Metascore®45 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Let's not sell Tyler Perry short. As the vinegar-witted Madea, he's a drag performer of testy charm, but in his overlit patchwork way he's also making the most primal women's pictures since Joan Crawford flexed her shoulder pads. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Tribune | Chris Jones

    Gussied up for the big time, Perry now is aiming himself squarely at a mainstream, middle-class female audience -- with some sops for their dates. Read full review

  • 60
    Village Voice | Jim Ridley

    Perry's vaudevillian shamelessness and indifference to committee-approved taste are energizing and frequently jaw-dropping. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri Linden

    Neither good nor so-bad-it's-good, Perry's odd oeuvre has an allure all its own. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Anita Gates

    Both Ms. Angelou and Ms. Tyson deliver powerful, touching messages. Just as they're sinking in, the film turns into an unabashed chick flick with a painfully gaudy wedding that includes live angels hanging on wires from the ceiling. Read full review

  • 50
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

    Madea's Family Reunion represents an advance on Diary, if only because it dials down Madea's shtick (she no longer waves a gun around) and irons out some of those awkward tonal transitions. The chance that Perry's followers will leave disappointed is approximately 0 percent. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    Tyler Perry offers another blithely unbalanced mix of low comedy, sudsy sentiment and spiritual uplift in Madea's Family Reunion. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Gene Seymour

    Reunion is an awkward compound of paradoxical tones and ideas... But one shouldn't underestimate Perry's ability to make such contradictions work and get away with the most wretched excess. Read full review