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An overt desire to please often leaves Tillman relying on force-feeding techniques.
Paul Tatara, CNN.com
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Soul Food
Overview
Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's turn sour when sisters Teri, Bird and Maxine start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy strikes, it's up to grandson Ahmad to pull the family together and put the soul back into the family's weekly gatherings.
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82%
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Rotten
Soul Food aims to be a banquet of feelings, but mostly it serves up tripe.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Fresh
The steaming platters of fried catfish, macaroni and cheese, sweet corn bread, and black-eyed peas that appear early and often in writer-director George Tillman Jr.'s sentimental family drama should be listed in the credits as costars.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
Soul Food serves up family melodrama-cum-comedy that's tasty and satisfying, if not particularly profound or original.
Godfrey Cheshire, Variety
Fresh
Tillman is tremendously skilled at bridging the vast shifts in tone.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
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