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

| 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

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

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

This reviewer is completely baffled as to... what happened during the picture, and what the whole idea was. But maybe it was because she was just so overwhelmed by the astounding characterization of Rita Hayworth in the title role.

| Nov 18, 2020

There is fine, serious acting by Glenn Ford, a character study by Steven Geray that is a rare treat to witness, and some imperial German arrogance from George Macready, complete with duelling scar.

| Aug 26, 2020

Despite close and earnest attention to this nigh-onto-two-hour film, this reviewer was utterly baffled by what happened on the screen. To our average register of reasoning, it simply did not make sense.

| Aug 26, 2020

Ford still managed to sustain the intense pessimism and world-weary cruelty... that made Farrell one of the most ambiguous anti-heroes of the 1940s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2020

The chief weight of the grim drama falls on the shoulders of Rita Hayworth, who presents Gilda with alluring skill. Glenn Ford makes Johnny a cool but likeable scoundrel, with George Macready, whose Mundson is a cold and very unllkeable scoundrel.

| Aug 26, 2020

Never was there such a mingling of intense looks over champagne glasses and silences meant to be significant, but looks and silences alike fail in their effect.

| Aug 26, 2020

Hayworth, whether she's performing "Put the Blame on Mame" (dubbed by Anita Ellis) or just being her glamorous self, was never more magnificent.

| Aug 25, 2020

Cast and crew spin a twilight magic.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 22, 2011

Gilda stands up remarkably well.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2011

A real 1940s Hollywood treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2011

Examples of film noir don't come much headier or more perverse than Charles Vidor's sultry little number...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2011

Practically all the s.a. habiliments of the femme fatale have been mustered for Gilda, and when things get trite and frequently far-fetched, somehow... there is always Rita Hayworth to excite the filmgoer.

| Mar 26, 2009

One of the great films noirs, softened just a little by the moralising censorship strictures of the time. See it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2006