Although it makes no bones about preaching to the choir, Woman, Thou Art Loosed has enough force as a searing emotional drama to transcend religious boundaries.
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10/01/04
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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.
Theatrical Release:Oct 1, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $6,804,016
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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Reviews for Woman, Thou Art Loosed
It has the wooden, self-conscious veneer of a vanity production.
10/01/04
Top CriticDirector Michael Schultz exerts inadequate control over some promising performances that belong in a better movie than this laundry list of sisterly grievances.
10/01/04
Unconvincing performances and overwritten dialogue make Woman fail to resonate.
10/01/04
If a black, gospel-themed work can catch on with mass audiences, this will be it.
10/01/04
While the acting is adequate, it has a low-budget, melodramatic 'ABC Afterschool Special' quality to it that would make it more appropriate for airing on Lifetime or BET.
10/01/04
An earnest but intensely awful piece of motivational entertainment.
10/01/04
Top CriticWoman Thou Art Loosed isn't the most polished film to roll down the pike, but it has authenticity in its dialogue and situations that Hollywood films lack.
10/01/04
Now, a movie, from the Pentecostal preacher whose line of 'Loosed' product includes a novel, a play, a traveling seminar, and the 'Woman, Thou Art Loosed Cookbook'...
10/01/04
It's not a tribute to the power of Christian living, but rather a self-tribute by Bishop Jakes to his own sense of importance.
10/01/04
You could classify the film as self-help drama, with the line between sermon and drama intentionally obscured.
09/30/04
The screenplay is overwrought at times, but the acting is superb by any standard.
09/30/04
For the Rev. Jakes, Jesus is the way out. But on film, that message comes across with more subtlety and tenderness than the grind of the touring gospel musical can muster.
09/30/04
Ultimately, the movie's too uneven to be totally satisfying.
09/30/04
Top CriticMichael Schultz's powerful melodrama renews an important tradition of African-American filmmaking: the movie as revivalist sermon.
09/30/04
Top Critic... technical adeptness can't save Woman, Thou Art Loosed from being much more than a vanity project.
09/30/04
Woman Thou Art Loosed is a decent movie, but it needs more story and more opportunities for the actors to showcase their abilities.
09/30/04
Everything in this film is simply too sanitized to work. We're dropped into a world of pimps, 'hos' and crackheads, where no one so much as says 'darn.'
09/29/04
Most troubling ... is the hopeless moral environment Jakes and director Michael Schultz create.
09/28/04
A quality production that fully engages.
09/25/04
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