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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Diary of a Mad Black Woman is directed by Darren Grant, who is unable to wrangle all of Perry's attempts to entertain -- or pander to -- his audience into anything resembling a satisfying movie. Read more
Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: While the movie fills a much-needed niche in the lily-white Hallmark movie department, this clunky, borderline-amateur directorial effort from music-video veteran Darren Grant simply doesn't do justice to the material. In fact, it's downright awful. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Tyler Perry, even if he's no church-show Peter Sellers, obviously carves out some kind of niche here. Remember, they laughed at Ed Wood. And they're still laughing at him. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: The material comes off as a serious miscalculation in Perry and director Darren Grant's film adaptation. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: As is true of so many play adaptations, the theatrically pitched performances don't work as well on the screen. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: A lot of it shouldn't work -- and doesn't -- but even while you're sitting there, thinking that it can't go much farther off track, it manages to be fairly involving. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Blows to the head are delivered with more subtlety than the message of Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Comic relief is often welcome in drama, but these broad caricatures, which draw easy laughter as the minstrel turns they are, destroy the sense of reality that a large and hardworking cast is otherwise striving to create. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The film itself is a touch insane, veering from comedy to cornball melodrama (and torture!) with such startling alacrity that viewers might laugh and not know if they're supposed to. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Some of these problems stem from the film's leap from a theatrical production's play-to-the-rafters bigness to the screen's demands for something more finessed. There's not a lot of nuance here. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Diary is a crock, all right, but a crock made with conviction. Read more
Tom Sime, Dallas Morning News: Mr. Perry's irrepressible energy and rapid-fire wit bring Robin Williams to mind. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: It's so heartfelt that you'd have to be a curmudgeon to reject its charms outright, and so artificial you'd have to be willfully naive to swallow them whole. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There's nothing real or even funny in Perry's performance; all padding and crude makeup, he shouts every line as if he's still playing to the upper balcony in a rundown Masonic Hall. Read more
David Edelstein, NPR's Fresh Air: Half inspired and half eye-rollingly terrible. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: It turns on a dime from scenes of maudlin sentimentality to manic slapstick, then turns on another dime to trite Christian moralizing. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Tyler Perry's movie is 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 more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The low comedy and high melodrama, with a touch of inspiration, don't blend easily, and here the match seems forced. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I've been reviewing movies for a long time, and I can't think of one that more dramatically shoots itself in the foot. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Perry doesn't have any delusions of artistry, and potentially, at least, that's refreshing. But any points he earns for lack of pretense are immediately gobbled up by his lack of subtlety. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Raucous and overwrought, the movie is still a hoot to watch and even more fun to talk back to. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This movie stew -- equal parts farce, drama and sermon -- gives you plenty to chew on but, ultimately, is less than filling. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: It's a cheap melodrama that presses all the right sentimental buttons. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's never less than watchable, a bizarre hybrid that somehow works as a whole, even though its various components don't mesh. Read more
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: The film detours into an almost Miike-like torture sequence. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: To review Diary of a Mad Black Woman is really to review three different movies, none of which is very good. Read more