Acrimony: reviews

What the critics say average 3.4 from 5 outlets

• 6.0 The WrapAlonso Duralde "While Tyler Perry?s Acrimony doesn?t quite live up to its stylish trailer ? that water-torture sound design promises a floodgate that will burst at any moment ? it?s the kind of ?women?s picture? that used to be Joan Crawford?s bread and butter, the sort that allows its star to glamorously lose her grip in a succession of great outfits". Read
• 4.2 Entertainment WeeklyRuth Kinane "The 20 or so minutes we get of Henson?s rage are not enough to warrant the title or the ticket price". Read
• 4.0 New York TimesBen Kenigsberg "Ms. Henson does what she can with a role that keeps her anger at a low simmer until requiring her to go full banshee within basically one scene. You can?t accuse her or Acrimony of being boring, but the film falls short of a design for living". Read
• 2.0 The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck "The film is so ridiculously overwrought that it makes the Madea films look subtle by comparison". Read
• 1.0 VarietyOwen Gleiberman "A ludicrously scattershot drama in which overwrought feminine rage, diary-of-a-mad-woman craziness, and inept filmmaking are all but inseparable". Read