Gloria Bell deserved much more happiness behind the camera and on the page to make this something truly worth dancing for.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 4, 2024

Gloria Bell succeeds as an empathetic look at middle age with all of its accompanying trials, not least of which is the challenge of finding a worthy partner whose baggage doesn’t outweigh our own.

| Jul 24, 2023

Julianne Moore has the kind of talent and charm that makes you forget Gloria Bell is a remake.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 3, 2022

Writer-director Lelio maintains many of his first version's effective moments, which shift smoothly from their original setting in Santiago, Chile to Los Angeles.

| Jul 22, 2021

When Gloria gearshifts from tears to laughter as the weight of a bad relationship lifts or finally dances to her own beat on the dance floor, Moore is vulnerable and jubilant, awkward and comfortable, and always relatable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Almost by extension of Moore's lived-in performance, Lelio's Gloria Bell is just as subtle and rewarding as the original, granting American audiences a new look into his brand of filmmaking through a simple story brimming with the comedy of life.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 28, 2021

Gloria Bell could have played as a glorious showcase of a woman being true to herself in spite of the world trying to hold her back. Instead, it's a slog that wastes the talents of Julianne Moore and her many recognizable co-stars.

| Feb 18, 2021

Uncommonly clear-eyed about the hard work of happiness, and the capriciousness of it.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 5, 2021

The story has a couple of inexplicable situations and the pace is rather slow, but overall it has substance and creates characters that aren't typically seen in leading roles.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 14, 2020

Julianne Moore is one of the greatest actresses working today.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 5, 2020

Gloria Bell is a flawless, spellbinding gem that is bittersweet yet will still have you bursting into song and dance by the time it's over.

| Oct 1, 2020

A movie that succeeds more often than it fails, but occasionally overreaches into areas it can't quite pull off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2020

Most unforgettable is the sight and sound of Gloria, driving toward the sunset on Wilshire Boulevard, singing her little heart out to the radio, self-medicating with 80s oldies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2020

[The similarities to the original are] distracting, but with its quiet tension and Moore's performance, Gloria Bell mostly justifies its existence.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 27, 2020

A remake that is too subject to the subterfuges and the conventional formulas. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 21, 2020

Julianne Moore truly is one of the greatest of all time, and it's a delight to watch her bring her peppy gravitas to a role that many would have seen fit to lean on trope to portray.

| Mar 18, 2020

Best musical of the year. Julianne Moore in a take no prisoners transformative rebel middle age makeover. And with lots of self-celebratory, breathlessly expressive emancipation in this somewhat feminist musical too.

| Jan 7, 2020

[Julianne Moore] is always terrific, but she gives an especially terrific, well-rounded performance here. It's nuanced, vulnerable, strong, funny, emotionally rich and textured.

| Sep 20, 2019

Bringing a free-flowing and European cinematic style to tell the story of a modern American woman, Gloria Bell will have you rooting and swooning for its title character as she tries to be the auteur of her own biopic.

| Sep 10, 2019

Moore's performance in Gloria Bell is Oscar worthy and she is surrounded by a solid group of actors who help her to shine.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 3, 2019