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Selena

Selena

1997
Drama, Music
2h 7m
This biographical drama charting the extraordinary career and tragic slaying of pop singing sensation Selena. (Warner Bros.)
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Selena

1997
Drama, Music
2h 7m
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Rated 09 Dec 2012
55
22nd
I have seen this movie 3 times, none of them willingly. I almost have a Stockholm Syndrome thing going on with this film. Someone please help me.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
64
37th
A mediocre music bio-pic of singer Selena, with a better-than-usual performance by Jennifer Lopez. But there's still not much reason to search it out.
Rated 07 Jun 2009
42
11th
Having never heard anything by the titular artist that this movie depicts, I have to take the film completely on its own merits. As a film, Selena fails due to its over reliance on melodrama, and the need to include lengthy musical numbers that left me looking at my watch. On the positive side the acting is competent; Jennifer Lopez turns in a surprisngly efficient performance, as does Edward James Olmos. But even their best efforts barely make this film watchable. Pass on this.
Rated 14 Apr 2009
50
30th
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Rated 27 Jul 2008
80
63rd
A good tribute to both Selena's life and music. Surprisingly good acting by J-Lo. Worth watching.
Rated 21 May 2009
20
44th
Insipid "biopic" -- family-authorized to make sure that nothing too tangy intrudes -- about the tejano singing star and Grammy winner, a rags-to-riches success story ("We think she's the next Gloria Estefan!") abruptly halted by homicide. Lopez, lip-synching to original recordings, rises well above exhilaration and to within a step stool of ecstasy. For brief moments, she elevates the entire (admittedly lightweight) puff piece.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
65
43rd
Sweat to god, Jennifer Lopez COULD act once. Back before she became J-Lo, she was actually talented. This isn't a great movie, but it's a *nice* movie, and there's something totally appealling about the young Lopez, who embraces this role for all she's worth.
Rated 12 Dec 2010
30
6th
Hopefully there's a circle in hell for directors of by-the-numbers biopics. There are far worse movies than this out there, but most of the worse ones are also more interesting than this stunningly generic romp. Lopez is okay though.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
45
17th
Works only as a tv movie late, late at night. Yolanda Saldivar, screw you!
Rated 14 Aug 2007
60
21st
straightforward by the numbers biopic, but interesting and compelling. helped to make JLo a star.
Rated 11 Sep 2009
55
20th
OK to watch
Rated 26 Oct 2007
10
4th
This movie was stupid, and worst of all, it launched Jennifer Lopez's music career.
Rated 04 Mar 2009
25
25th
Meh it was on TV.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
50
12th
I didnt really like Jennifer, but really 'Selena'.
Rated 11 Sep 2007
75
36th
Good movie about the life of the singer Selena.
Rated 09 Apr 2010
60
23rd
Decent, but not very interesting to me.
Rated 09 Dec 2012
64
29th
I think I realized this "biopic" was emotional chain-yanking okayness with no real direction when Abraham asked Selena if she could quiet the crowd and stop them from hurting people and collapsing the stage and she did. With the power of music. Spanish class why.
Rated 23 Oct 2008
70
25th
Okay, but not great!
Rated 07 Apr 2008
75
59th
Probably the only good movie Jennifer Lopez will ever make. Too bad it made her think she could launch a singing career.
Rated 10 Oct 2008
50
34th
What should have been fascinating is instead just boring. Which is a pity 'cos I normally don't mind music biopics
Rated 29 Mar 2007
60
47th
Half the movie is about the executive producer instead
Rated 27 Jan 2008
40
33rd
I like Selena's music and I don't hade J Lo, but this is kind of pedestrian, which is odd.
Rated 15 Apr 2015
84
56th
A loving tribute to a phenomenon cut off in her prime. Jennifer Lopez is very charming as Selena and blends right into the role. Edward James Olmos ranges from sentimental, to happy, to fumingly angry, to kind in a heartbeat and delivers some of the best lines of the movie. Some have criticized the movie for being fluffy and I don't mind the movie for that. Maybe I'm a sucker for it, but I'm even more a sucker for a movie that obviously had a lot of love put into it. This is one of those movies.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
45
16th
I saw this way too many times in Spanish class. Jennifer Lopez at perhaps her least annoying, though.
Rated 29 Nov 2006
24
12th
Every year in chorus (why they would show pop singing in chorus is beyond me), we watched this movie. Crap.
Rated 23 Jul 2008
100
94th
just because my mom Loves her...and i like big butts..and i gotta represent for the mexicans
Rated 03 Aug 2009
51
46th
Decent but I don't like this kind of music movies
Rated 07 Dec 2017
82
33rd
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Rated 14 Aug 2007
76
36th
Jennifer Lopez can sing. Who knew?
Rated 12 Dec 2010
1
6th
Oh yeah, this movie.
Rated 08 Nov 2019
39
20th
Jennifer Lopez is a boring actress.
Rated 13 Aug 2021
86
88th
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