Gloria is magnetic and radiant... I left the theater feeling a little sad that a female lead like Garcia and a film like Gloria are both so rare.

| Jan 20, 2021

The film's pulse comes in many ways from Garca's brave and beautiful central performance.

| Jan 5, 2015

We don't make movies in America like Gloria, so we have to import them. I wish we'd import more -- and make a few, as well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2015

Whether you appreciate Gloria as a portrait of a vital woman, muddling through life's middle chapters, or as an allegory of Chilean resilience, the message is the same: Let's face the music and dance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2015

It's an open-ended question whether Gloria ever finds the happiness she seeks while dodging the current of middle-aged isolation, but her constant search is a valiant and deeply involving one.

| Original Score: A | Jan 5, 2015

The script certainly couldn't give more of itself to its leading lady, and Chilean 온라인카지노추천 star Garcia accepts with a wondrous star turn that makes plain Gloria's inner vitality, but doesn't stint on the petty insecurities holding her back in other respects.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 5, 2015

Chilean actor Paulina Garca deservedly won a Best Actress award at this year's Berlin Festival for her exuberant, warm-hearted performance as Gloria, a divorcee in late middle age who still has an extraordinary lust for life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2015

Subtle, quiet, delicate and unpretentious, Gloria is among the most satisfying films I have seen in years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2014

Garcia's performance is wonderful. The more we watch her, the more beautiful her character becomes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2014

Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's Gloria is a warm, intimate, sharply funny depiction of a life in progress.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2014

Look, how often do we see films about people of this age finding love and particularly finding sex and so this is quite original from that point of view?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2014

Not quite a comedy and not quite a drama, this Chilean film looks at middle age from a refreshingly even-handed perspective, not a wacky or tragic one.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2014

The film belongs to Garcia, who is in literally every shot. Wafting over Garcia's face at different moments are contentment, frustration, loneliness, disappointment, happiness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 7, 2014

Although this Chilean film's narrative ambitions are modest, Gloria is a likable movie that's anchored by an outstanding performance by Paulina Garca.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2014

"Gloria" is that rare work, a truly adult film. By its end, you want to cheer the simple act of living.

| Original Score: A | Feb 7, 2014

By the end, we dance with her, living in the moment as she does, not looking ahead to life's next turn.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 6, 2014

This is a driven, indelible character -- like the women Gena Rowlands played for John Cassavetes -- and you fear her going over the edge not least because you suspect you'd follow her.

| Feb 6, 2014

Most films past the mid-life point either don't acknowledge romance and sexuality, or make it the central point of the story; the frank, comfortable, yet warmly erotic way Gloria deals with it is a breath of fresh air.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 6, 2014

Writer-director Sebastin Lelio, whose fourth feature this is, has a confident way of parceling out exuberance and melancholy in a setting of mundane everyday realism.

| Feb 6, 2014

Audiences intuitively search for someone to root for in a film, and Garca's Gloria, who's in practically every frame of the movie, fits that bill perfectly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2014