The Single Moms Club 2014

David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: The moral here is that no challenge is insurmountable if you form a club. And keep a wine opener handy. Read more

Scott Foundas, Variety: A surprisingly sharp and funny female-empowerment ensembler. Read more

Peter Keough, Boston Globe: In Tyler Perry's latest opus, "The Single Moms Club," he demonstrates how disparate stereotypes can find common ground through the power of a single cliche. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Just wondering, but if these sisters are indeed capable of doing it for themselves as the film insists, why can't at least one of them do it without a man? Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: This is a club that you don't want to join. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club is a sitcom masquerading as a feature film. And given Perry's snowballing small-screen presence, an eventual TV show of it would be no surprise. Read more

Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: This is How Stella Got Her Groove Back for the Pop-Tart crowd, a wish-fulfillment weepie that narrowly clears Perry's low bar, thanks mostly to Wendi McLendon-Covey and Cocoa Brown Read more

Jordan Hoffman, New York Daily News: [T]his is a film about catharsis and camaraderie, not logic. Read more

Nicolas Rapold, New York Times: Mr. Perry's latest film touches upon some recognizable and realistic challenges with efficient compassion, but there's probably more dramatic tension in a car pool than in this film's collection of predicaments. Read more

Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: While the subject is very timely and worthy, this lame tale just falls completely flat. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: In any other movie, the filmmaker would rightly be accused of trafficking in lazy stereotypes, but lazy stereotypes are the beachhead into which Tyler Perry has firmly planted his flag. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: It quickly becomes a by-the-book, overly-simplified look at a quintet of single moms who find common ground coping with the challenges of raising middle-school age children and finding romance. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: These are some great actresses, and with writer-director-producer Perry displaying some rare focus, you're intrigued at first by the possibility of watching them interact for a couple of hours. It doesn't last. Read more