Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Another week, another urban dance movie from the United States.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

The film does have great energy, and some fabulous dancing, but the script could have done with another draft.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2008

It's a familiar set-up, but while the story falls back on clichés and trite moral messages, a few dance scenes deliver in spectacular style.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2008

The dance scenes are fun to watch but the script's not too light on its feet.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2008

Seriously, it is nuts the way these kids dance.

| Apr 3, 2008

When they dance, the effect isn't exuberant release -- every cartilage-crushing stomp-clap gets more and more furious. This is cheerleading in hell.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 29, 2008

How She Move was shot on the cheap in 16-mm. film, and some of it is a little drab-looking, but it has energy and bravado.

| Jan 28, 2008

The thin and predictable plot benefits from likable performances by Wesley, Armstrong, and the rest of the cast, from some distinctive detail about the Caribbean immigrant population and their community, and from some smokin' dance moves.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 27, 2008

As we replay last year's step-dance hit Stomp the Yard, the ostensible message about working hard in school gets stomped out of the yard.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 25, 2008

There's not much that's surprising in How She Move, but watching how she moves is a pleasure.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 25, 2008

How She Move isn't a great film or even a terribly well-made film, but it has its moments and, of course, it has the ending it's promised all along.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 25, 2008

The strong acting, spectacular dance routines and culturally specific details in How She Move turn clichés into catharsis.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 25, 2008

How She Move gets it right in every dance sequence, but stumbles badly whenever the characters step offstage (or a car hood, or the sidewalk, or wherever they happen to be practicing).

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 25, 2008

Honestly, this is a carbon copy of every other 'gotta dance' flick ever made, down to the cheesy emcees who host the big dance-off (it's in Detroit!) and the wannabe heart-tugging conclusion.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 25, 2008

Though it may sound like it, How She Move is not just another dance-off flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2008

A grittier, slightly more real-world version of movies like Step Up, Stomp the Yard, and Save the Last Dance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 25, 2008

Though the story is predictable, How She Move has two key assets: powerful dance sequences and an emphasis on education.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 25, 2008

In the increasingly crowded field of movies based on urban dance, How She Move stands out as a well-written and well-acted drama with an appeal that reaches beyond dance fanatics.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2008

Doesn't exactly break any new ground. But the terrific dance numbers on display should please its teenage target audience.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2008