Selena
The musical biography of Selena Quintanilla-Perez and her break through in the music industry.
10 September 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 December 1963, Laredo, Texas, USA
23 December 1948, Dallas, Texas, USA
18 July 1953, San Juan, Texas, USA
27 December 1924
17 September 1942, El Paso, Texas, USA
September 05, 2007
Even in its sappiest moments, Jennifer Lopez's performance and Selena's music shine through.
July 13, 2007
In spite of Jennifer Lopez' strong performance, it doesn't save an incomplete story that only covers some of Selena's life.
February 03, 2007
In her first major, star-making role, Jennifer Lopez is compelling, but the rest of this showbiz biopic is shallow and excessively melodramatic, like most of Gregory Nava's films.
September 17, 2007
A well-meaning but bland and shallow salute to Selena.
June 18, 2002
Nava, who started his feature-film career with El Norte, is a good director who invariably finds a strong rapport with his actors. He's not much of a writer, though, and he should think twice about creating dialogue for his future projects.
September 28, 2007
Jennifer Lopez ... elevates the film immensely with her radiant and energetic performance.
May 11, 2001
Missing is a sense of the interior life behind the smiling face that Selena showed the world. What of the drive that led her to music? What comfort did she find in it? What pain?
March 27, 2009
Selena surmounts its connect-the-dots approach to its heroine's life to create an appealing, energetic look at a too-briefly soaring musical star.
September 14, 2007
What a biography. And what a screenplay.
May 20, 2003
By the end of the film, Selena has been all but canonized.
January 01, 2000
Selena succeeds, through Lopez's performance, in evoking the magic of a sweet and talented young woman.
March 21, 2017
What makes this movie work is Jennifer Lopez's electric performance as Selena, capturing the charismatic aspects of Selena's stage persona and the essence of her maturity as a growing woman.
