The true story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, a Texas-born Tejano singer and the progress of her career resulting in her No. 1 US album.
2 November 1963, New York City, New York, USA
25 June 1983, Landstuhl, West Germany
18 August 1971, Michoacan, Mexico
16 April 1971, Lake Jackson, Texas, USA
9 September 1965, East Los Angeles, California, USA
12 February 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 July 1953, San Juan, Texas, USA
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June 29, 1967 in Lake Jackson, Texas, USA
September 28, 2007
Jennifer Lopez ... elevates the film immensely with her radiant and energetic performance.
May 20, 2003
By the end of the film, Selena has been all but canonized.
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.
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.
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?
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.
September 14, 2007
What a biography. And what a screenplay.
September 17, 2007
A well-meaning but bland and shallow salute to Selena.
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.
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.
January 01, 2000
Selena succeeds, through Lopez's performance, in evoking the magic of a sweet and talented young woman.
