For all the tough-minded talk and frank portraits of inner-city life... the film is not altogether convincing.
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10/22/04
Woman, Thou Art Loosed (2004)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:28
Rotten:27
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: While Woman is a little less heavy-handed than other message movies, it still feels like an After School Special.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: From the best selling novel and stage play, WOMAN THOU ART LOOSED (WTAL), comes the film adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' tale of dysfunction, isolation and finally, inspiration. WTAL tells the... [More]
Starring: Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Clifton Powell, Debbi Morgan
Director: Michael Schultz
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10/21/04
It offers a compelling portrait of human tragedy and the journey to redemption.
10/21/04
Unlike many films with Christian agendas, this one doesn't sweep ugliness under the rug.
10/21/04
Good intentions. Wish it were a better movie.
10/21/04
Typical of the sort of melodrama that's the stuff of well-meaning telefilms, but...played at too high-pitched a tone.
10/12/04
More like a very special episode of Oprah than a night out at the movies.
10/08/04
Schultz ... is not able to lift the proceedings beyond melodrama, but he succeeds in imbuing the film with dramatic urgency and has elicited powerful performances from the cast.
10/07/04
Top CriticIts essential message of emotional healing is a positive one. But as a movie, it floats into a channel-surfing blur of corny scenes and pop psych dialogue that too often confuses the material with the spiritual.
10/07/04
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10/06/04
Top Critichandled as an After School Special
10/05/04
This is very much a woman's picture, both in the old-school sense of highly pitched, Lifetime-style melodrama and in its cast of formidable actresses, all of whom deliver powerful performances.
10/01/04
You may not care for the message, but there's nothing insidious about it.
10/01/04
This is one faith-based film that pulls no punches.
10/01/04
Top CriticA poorly dramatized infomercial.
10/01/04
For victims of abuse, watching this film may be a cathartic experience. For most moviegoers, it is, at its best, a sober look at a problem that is at last getting some of the attention it has always deserved.
10/01/04
The uniformly excellent actors, many of whom have been working beneath their gifts for years on UPN sitcoms, clearly relished the complexities. You will too.
10/01/04
Its preachy side can be offputting. Messages of forgiveness and spiritual awakening are slammed home like force-feeding for the soul.
10/01/04
There's no finger-pointing exclusion or even hellfire here, only the openhearted hope and welcoming love on which the religion was based.
10/01/04
This movie wears its agenda proudly. If at times awkwardly, it has something real it wants to say.
10/01/04
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