[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

A well-observed, good character study, although something that you may have seen before.

| Jun 17, 2019

Gloria Bell is somewhat exhausting - both unbearably intimate and at a constant remove - but it is endlessly pulled back into focus by Moore.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2019

The result isn't better than the 2013 original but it's just as good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2019

Moore's subtle, empathetic work elevates what could be dismissed as a small-scale, even banal story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2019

Whether she's dealing with conflicts at work, doing laugh therapy sessions, or smoking weed on the floor of her apartment while the Californian sunlight slants through the window, this is a Bell that chimes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2019

Moore appears in almost every scene of the film and in her performance Gloria's resilience shines.

| Jun 7, 2019

There are low moments, flat moments and unconvincing moments - but Gloria deserves to be protected at all costs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2019

The thumping heart of all of it is Moore, whose magnetically watchable, fully inhabited, offhandedly sexy performance makes Gloria Bell's reflective longueurs shimmer...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2019

Despite failing to replicate the authenticity of the original, Gloria Bell offers just the right amount of angst and drama to be able to stand on its own feet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2019

Lelio structures his film not as a shopping list of plot points, but vignettes and snapshots of the multitudes that Gloria contains...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2019

There is a terrific performance here from Moore, and an equally good one from Turturro, who may be entering into his own golden years of bittersweet character work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2019

Stunningly acted and sensitively detailed, it's a modest story of a normal, middle-aged life told with compelling honesty.

| Jun 4, 2019

Gloria Bell is as complex and understated as its lead character, brought to life by Moore with a lived-in quality, and with texture.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 2, 2019

It's a story that proves to be well worth the translation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2019

Gloria Bell is a spellbinding treasure.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 3, 2019

Gloria Bell smashes the Bechdel test, and that's mostly because filmmaker Sebastián Lelio just lets these scenes of everyday life unfold, and lets Julianne Moore react in them -- masterfully so.

| Mar 30, 2019

Moore digs in and finds the intricacies in her character. She's not showy, but she turns in an honest, understated performance that all comes together in a joyous, melancholy, liberating dance set to Laura Branigan's "Gloria."

| Original Score: A- | Mar 22, 2019

There is a kind of daring in the film's very modesty, in Lelio's decision to forego the thrills of melodrama and the lure of glamour to follow an unexceptional woman through the peaks and valleys of her days.

| Mar 21, 2019

You can see the work, how much effort goes into trying - and, in Gloria Bell's ultimately optimistic framing, that the work is still worth it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2019