A beautiful film about a heartbreaking romance, one that never quite establishes the trust necessary for true love to blossom.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 9, 2021

The story of the love affair between former Hollywood starlet Gloria Grahame and British provincial actor Peter Turner during the closing years of Grahame's life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2021

Bell and Bening try to ignite a fire on screen that simply never shows up. The two actors have little chemistry, and that dooms the film.

| Nov 6, 2020

Bening's incredible performance grows deeper as Grahame's situation grows in difficulty...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2020

There is a genuine gentle, loving softness in its telling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 16, 2019

A love story that's told with respect and restraint.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2019

(McGuigan) lets the actors work and succeed in illustrating without stridency a small and exciting story. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2019

A nicely made biopic on the former Hollywood film noir femme fatale, Gloria Grahame.

| Original Score: B | May 26, 2019

[It] might disappoint someone looking for a Gloria Grahame biopic but this film is a touching, sometimes funny, sometimes heart-breaking, tale about the power of friendship and love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2019

An intimately charming snapshot of what it means to age, to love, and to fight against whatever stands in the way of either.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2019

Bening is extraordinary and ordinary, deftly balancing the complexities of Gloria's personality, and as with many Hollywood stars we aren't ever sure if they became legends despite or because of them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2018

Thankfully, Bening and Bell seem to know more about their respective characters (and their unusual supportive bond) than those at the creative controls of this middling movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 16, 2018

While there could be more that goes into a Gloria Grahame film, as a May-December Hollywood weepie, Film Stars Die in Liverpool earns its Kleenex.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 30, 2018

It's another compelling performance for the four-time Oscar nominee in a film that may sputter at times only to be lifted by Bening's stunning work.

| Original Score: B | Oct 26, 2018

A handsome but anemic sob story about the cruelty and vanity of Hollywood that isn't nearly as interesting as its central performance.

| Oct 26, 2018

Their chemistry together is superb. The moving, well-judged, wonderfully acted film has humour, compassion, tenderness, kindness and sadness that is even more moving because it all basically happened.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2018

No matter how dramatic the melodramatic conflict, director Paul McGuigan relates the brief but intense relationship of two characters that at times do not seem complementary without exaggeration. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 17, 2018

What a performance, transformational, by Bening. Oscar-worthy.

| Sep 10, 2018

This bookend of Grahame's latter life - though entertaining and not without wonderful nuanced moments, an evocative soundtrack and light laughs - is maddeningly gun shy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018

There is a lot in this story about these women, the characters they play, the images they created and those that were projected onto their onscreen and offscreen lives. For Bening to now portray Grahame is meaningful and poetic.

| Aug 24, 2018