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92
Viewer score based on 5 votes.

Critic Score

56
Critics' score based on 23 reviews.
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February 08,2011
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Stella may be frothy and paper-thin, but it's also another great success for star Angela Bassett, who transforms the film into an infomercial for her considerable abilities.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

The filmmakers go to obvious pains to add a bit of nutritive value to their sweet, frothy confection.Full Review

Russell Smith
Austin Chronicle

Whether you regard Stella's getting her groove back as a feminist battle cry or as a silly wish-fulfillment fantasy, the movie delivers guilt-free escapism about pretty people having wicked-hot fun in pretty places.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

For once, with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Hollywood offers a love story that concentrates on the simple nuances of the romance rather than smothering us in an overly- melodramatic narrative featuring old boyfriends, jealousy, and hard-to-swallow misunderstandings. Full Review

James Berardinelli
ReelViews

The movie, adapted by Terry McMillan from her semi-autobiographical novel, is pointedly boundary-breaking in its positive portrayal of a May-September relationship between a younger man and an older woman.Full Review

Stephen Holden
The New York Times
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