With his creation Mabel “Madea” Simmons, here starring in her seventh film, Tyler Perry has built a franchise around barking disciplinarian, commonsense solutions to societal ills—and being that Madea ...

For many, especially black people who see in her a mockery of our own grandmothers, Tyler Perry’s Madea is little more than a mammy — an insult to the matriarchal community figure that Perry claims to ...

In Tyler Perry’s 13th directorial feature, a wealthy CFO (Eugene Levy) finds himself in the middle of a mob-affiliated Ponzi scheme and is relocated by the FBI to a southern Georgia home occupied by ...