It’s easy to be skeptical of yet another Selena Quintanilla project.

The late “queen of Tejano music” received an iconic, Jennifer Lopez-led biopic in 1997, but since then, many accounts of her life and artistry have skewed lazy at best and downright exploitative at worst. Netflix’s Selena: The Series faced pushback from critics and fans alike for sidelining its main character in favor of her relatives and former bandmates. A few years before that, a ghoulish Selena hologram tour nearly made the rounds in 2018.

What, then, does the new documentary Selena y Los Dinos—now on Netflix—have to add to the conversation about a star whose legendary rise and devastating loss still looms so large in pop culture? While the overarching beats of Selena’s story presented here will hardly surprise loy

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