Adapted from Terry McMillan's ribald, heartfelt novel and starring Angela Bassett in the title role, Stella's got plenty of style and brains. It's a sexier, sassier version of Hollywood's old-time romancers.

| Sep 3, 2020

The timing couldn't be better for How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

| Oct 3, 2017

Whoopi Goldberg adds a whole lotta jerk pork as the heroine’s best friend in a plot devoid of real conflict...

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2003

The "Groove" is on the move in Sullivan's ethnically snappy and exotic May-December romancer. Bassett and Diggs make for a sizzling couple

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 14, 2003

There's only one thing missing from this story, and it's the main ingredient: conflict.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 4, 2003

| Original Score: C | Jan 10, 2003

Gives Angela Bassett the full star treatment, and she gives it right back.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2002

There is insufficient chemistry, more tension and fighting than romance, and no epiphanal moment to demonstrate that Stella has indeed gotten her groove back.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 5, 2002

The movie meanders on and on, like a bad sexual dream, until you finally wake up mumbling: Stella, please: leave that groove thang alone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Stella's groove, like the film itself, doesn't run deep.

| Mar 5, 2002

This fine and funny film proves that a love that nurtures fills an emptiness that nothing else can fill.

| Mar 2, 2002

Delivers guilt-free escapism about pretty people having wicked-hot fun in pretty places.

| May 11, 2001