How She Move Critic Reviews

Rutina Wesley glowers with just the right touch of sweetness as a brainy student (and stellar after-school stepper).Read the full review

Title refers not only to its heroine's physical gyrations but also her moral maneuverings as she strives to break out of her lower-class surroundings in this moody, intelligent take on conventional material.Read the full review

The movie, which is burdened by a rather mediocre script by Annmarie Morais but boasts some terrific performances -- is not just a sports movie. It's a girls-can't-do-it/girls-can-do-it/girls-do-it/girls-beat-the-boys-at-it movie.Read the full review

There’s nary a twist you don’t see coming. But the film’s strong acting, spectacular dance routines and culturally specific details turn clichés into catharsis. It’s the sort of film that sends you home with a spring in your step.Read the full review

When the cast starts clomping atop a car, their synchronized bodies joining with the booming cross-rhythms, we're sold.Read the full review

How She Move has two key assets: powerful dance sequences and an emphasis on education.Read the full review

How She Move doesn't exactly break any new ground. But the terrific dance numbers on display should please its teenage target audience.Read the full review

The film's good intentions gradually get lost in a sea of overwrought contrivances, stock characters, awkward cameos from B- and C-listers (R&B singer Keyshia Cole and not-so-funnyman DeRay Davis) and warmed-over family issues.Read the full review