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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
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. Read full review
The filmmakers go to obvious pains to add a bit of nutritive value to their sweet, frothy confection. Read full review
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. Read full review
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. Read full review
How Stella Got Her Groove Back tries its best to turn a paperback romance into a relationship worth making a movie about, but fails. Read full review
Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan, a television veteran making his feature film debut, has fluffed up this undemanding material much as one would a pillow. But pillows have their place and so do girlfriend movies. Read full review
Buffed and waxed to within an inch of its life, Stella registers as more of a sequence of slick commercials than an actual drama. Read full review
I'm not denying that a 40-year- old woman might be self-conscious about going around with someone this young. But the subject isn't interesting or provocative enough to sustain an entire movie. Read full review
Bassett's natural dramatic fierceness, so powerful when incited to action, is at odds with the knee-weakening sexual surrender required by the story. Read full review
Like "Waiting to Exhale" except more so, film jerks from scene to scene with little sense of rhythm, continuity or dramatic shaping. Read full review