Popular reviews

• 

  Review by Kaleb ★★★½

  Gloria is a well acted love story about an older couple at the beginning of their romance. I don’t have much to say about it, the acting was great, and I liked the slow progression of the story, it’s just nothing special sadly.

• 

  Review by alan ★★★★½

  thank you sebastián lelio for making the same film twice, the paintball scene is iconic in both versions

• 

  Review by Rod Sedgwick ★★★½

  A merry-go-round of loneliness plagues a 58 year old woman in search of companionship amongst the emptiness of singles parties and dance clubs. Her family are not as 'present' as she needs them to be and neither is the new romantic flame she sparks up with Rodolfo, but with Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio's ever compassionate lens and without sentimentality or judgement, we witness a subtle transformation of a woman taking charge of her life. Paulina García is every bit deserving of the praise being thrust upon her as the titular protagonist, but I was also quite impressed with Sergio Hernández and his puppy dog eyes. If I have any complaints, it is with the script lacking that extra bit of oomph to make this something more special and memorable. As it lies, it is still very much a subtly rewarding film that warrants attention.

• 

  Review by Luis_989 ★★★★

  Some people say that being young is learning how to live and getting old means to learn how to die.

  Watch this film and maybe you'll get a different perspective.

• 

  Review by russman ★★★★ 2

  People actually have sphynx cats as pets other than evil doctors?

• 

  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★½

  Age is just a number & you're never too old to stop following what the heart desires. Gloria centers on a divorced but free-spirited old woman who is trying to beat the loneliness & old age by going to singles' parties where she meets a former naval officer with whom she becomes romantically involved & even dreams of a permanent relationship. But things aren't really as simple as they seem on the surface which later forces Gloria to confront her own secrets.

  This was the Chilean entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards & although it didn't impress me apart from a couple of things, there are many moments that'll make its viewers' smile. The best thing about Gloria is…

• 

  Review by UltimateMovieRankings ★★★½

  Why I watched this one? I thought it was a remake of Gena Rowland's 1980s thriller......which I think got her nominated for an Oscar. Instead I got a drama about an almost Golden Girl.

  What is this one about? Gloria has been divorced for 12 years. Her kids are grown and raising their own families. Life seems to be over for her...but she finds love in a man who seems to have a secret life. Can she find happiness?

  My thoughts on this one? Ok this one has a great performance from the actress playing Gloria......but man is this story depressing. The guy she falls in love with seems to be a jerk...and you wonder why she keeps giving him a chance. Final thought. This is a well done movie but not one I will ever watch again.

• 

  Review by Lizzy ★★★★ 1

  Dance the years away. Dance inside the pumping lights, the madding crowd, the droves of shakes and twists and senior figures swaying to a tune that rings a impassioned rhythm. The type of rhythm to sing over in a ride down the road, or the type of rhythm to broadcast over the rumbling, vigorous first encounter that cleanses the next-day blues with bright grins and locked eyes. The type of rhythm that beats within your heart, reminding that age is not a tally, only a mere mark. The type of rhythm that thrives for long, and then, one day, just stops. A cadence that silences all the dead noise, and carries your ears, even if only for a minute.

• 

  Review by eugenen ★★★★ 3

  Took about 30 seconds of post-film discussion to realize that this movie is a honking Rorscharch test: it's a character study of a lonely middle-aged woman, but what you think of her depends on how you read the merciless, darkly funny film. I'm convinced that Gloria is a fundamentally selfish, unkind person, and that the movie is about the universe repeatedly signaling that she needs to change that before she dies alone, unneeded, and unloved. Could list a litany of supporting evidence, but I'll settle for the second restaurant scene, in which she drops Rodolfo's phone in the soup and proposes a 10-day Cuban vacation -- immediately after he learns that his ex-wife is in the hospital with a serious injury. Anyone who faults Rodolfo for what he does next is a crazy person. Gloria is remarkable for how relatable and familiar it makes its protagonist while laying bare her faults in ways incisive and subtle.

• 

  Review by maneleeo ★★★½

  Being single at the age of almost 60 seems a bit scary. You can enjoy your own companionship, but if you want something else you will have to look for someone in the kind of places you really don't want to go. Not because they are perverted, but because singles parties and going to the disco isn't that fun, in my opinion, especially at that age.

  So, Gloria seems to have found someone and we see this relationship unravel, just as if they were younglings in love. But "Gloria" is not the kind of film that follows the typical conventions of love stories.

• 

  Review by Ashton ★★★★

  I hope when I'm her age, I move through the world just like Gloria does: dancing, and with a smile on my face.

• 

  Review by Laurence Barber ★★★★½

  A lot of people are confusing Gloria's deceptive simplicity for a lack of depth. Their loss. Excuse me while I watch that shotof Paulina Garcia from below while her hair dries at the hairdresser until the end of time, and strain the muscles in my face by smiling all the way through the final scene over and over and over again. So many defiantly un-Hollywood, or even American indie, pleasures to be found intertwined with a hugely subtle exploration of Chile's recent history and political climate, all anchored by Garcia giving easily the best performance of the past year.