Gilda is one of the great examples of onscreen masochism.

| Nov 21, 2023

Rita Hayworth's entrance is pure Hollywood starcraft: a perfectly lit close-up as she whips her head into frame, her hair lashing back and revealing her bright face and wide, mischievous grin.

| Sep 9, 2023

Miss Hayworth is quite a girl; and it should be put down to her credit that the general exchange of insults and blows retains a certain liveliness.

| Aug 10, 2022

Overlook the confusion of plot, and the loose ends and you'll find diversions to keep you awake. Chief among these, of course, is Rita Hayworth.

| Jul 9, 2021

Chock full of action and plenty of torrid feelings.

| Mar 31, 2021

The photography is excellent, and shows an improvement in this Hollywood department which is be coming increasingly noticeable.

| Mar 31, 2021

Heralded as a new team in motion pictures, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford are off to a flying start in Gilda.

| Nov 19, 2020

For an hour or so the spectator has been sufficiently beguiled by the prevailing air of mystery... But about this time he may begin to have a nasty suspicion, subsequently confirmed, that nothing is going to happen except Miss Hayworth.

| Nov 19, 2020

Completely disregarding the very obvious and eye-appealing fact, that Rita Hayworth is one of the world's most beautiful women, we are going to award her our personal accolade for also being one of the most dynamic and distinguished actresses.

| Nov 19, 2020

If it's escape you want in a movie, you will find surcease from the worry of today's scary headlines at the Music Hall, where Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford are pitted against each other in a lusty battle of hate and love.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 19, 2020

The captivating Miss Hayworth turns in what is perhaps her best performance as the reckless Gilda.

| Nov 19, 2020

Not since the archaic days of Theda Bara and her brazen ilk has sex appeal been set forth in so rampant a fashion on the screen.

| Nov 19, 2020

Staggering around with this plot on their shoulders, the players, all of them competent, have a lot of trouble being convincing, particularly with the dialogue provided.

| Nov 19, 2020

A sumptuously sordid story about crime, major and minor, in Buenos Aires.

| Nov 19, 2020

[Gilda] is a confused, preposterous fable, akin, we fancy, to the phantasms conjured up in a marihuana dream.

| Nov 19, 2020

In Gilda, you get a smart, expensively-produced drama, deliberately and quite successfully sensational.

| Nov 19, 2020

It's really good pulse-tingling cinema presented in good adult taste but there are sequences from which adolescents might draw the conclusion that all that shimmers is not heavenly light.

| Nov 19, 2020

It establishes and sustains an atmosphere amoral, sumptuous and even passionate; it is an atmosphere to which American films often appear to aspire and which they seldom attain.

| Nov 19, 2020

A South American melodrama rather fuzzy as to plot but with some excellent acting and a few effective scenes.

| Nov 19, 2020

It's a whizzer, this one just the sort of movie, spelled capital MOVIE that can't miss, because it's got nearly everything.

| Nov 19, 2020