Why stay in your lane when you can veer into other roadways with your own turbo-charged vehicles? With “A Fall from Grace,” mogul Tyler Perry swerves back and forth between his usual woman-centered ...

Tyler Perry is the James Patterson of film. No, that’s not it. “A Fall From Grace” is what you would get if “Joker” had been written about middle-aged black women. No, that might not be it either.

It was all good just three months ago. Most of Tyler Perry’s critics had made up with the filmmaker in October to join in on the celebration of the multimillionaire’s movie studio, making him the ...