If it wasn’t an intended poke in the eye, the Washington Post pro’lly wouldn’t be reviewing a movie with a religious component about an encounter with God.
Replace “curvy black woman” with heavy black man or thin Jewish man and they’d lose interest rather quickly.
... ah yes ( 1973 TV Movie )
TV adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's off-Broadway play. Tandy, Merideth and assorted others unexpectedly wake up in a steambath with no easy exit. After spending some time there, it becomes clear that the steambath is a sort of Afterlife, where indifferent souls come to tell their stories to God who happens to be the attendant picking up the towels.