For Colored Girls
Claudia Puig of "USA Today" called the film a "strained soap opera" which "has wrung the beauty and truth out of the original in almost every way possible." Mary Pols of "Time" magazine states that despite the caliber of the cast, "Elise's performance is the only restrained one in the film and her Crystal is For Colored Girls' most compelling character." She concludes that "For Colored Girls feels like the cinematic equivalent to putting a garish reproduction of the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of your McMansion and calling it art. "