If all this sounds like a rattle-through, it is, however inventive and thoughtful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2021

[Julie] Taymor's film doesn't proffer a biography of a real person; instead, this feels like the deified version, which shortchanges [Gloria] Steinem, her human story, and everyone she has inspired along the way.

| Original Score: C | Nov 16, 2020

These moments don't really work, but the idea behind them resonates. The movie feels like a conversation a dreaming Gloria Steinem might be having with herself, about herself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2020

As a reverent highlight reel and a history lesson, The Glorias gets the job done; as a movie, though, it rarely sings

| Original Score: B- | Oct 21, 2020

I appreciate everything Julie Taymor is trying to do by showing the whole face of the feminist movement -- even if it is a little bit standardly done.

| Oct 10, 2020

Too much truth has an annoying habit of sounding unreal when recounted on film, and viewers know when information is being foisted upon them. The result is that what should be most uplifting, in "The Glorias," is most at risk of clunkiness.

| Oct 9, 2020

...there's much to be admired about The Glorias, including the very different but equally powerful performances by Vikander and Moore, and the staging of some landmark moments in Steinem's life...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2020

Steinem's no-nonsense persona actually undercuts Taymor's baroque tendencies, such as when the director interrupts an interview scene with an overbaked "Wizard of Oz" fantasy involving a tornado of feminist fury.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 5, 2020

The film as a whole doesn't have a very strong grasp on Steinem as a person, except that she's modest and a good listener.

| Original Score: C | Oct 3, 2020

The Glorias, confronts this obstacle with a heavy hand that elides complexities in favour of an idealistic and, some might say, ironically depoliticized view of its focus - women's rights activist and trailblazer Gloria Steinem.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 2, 2020

It's a noble effort, but Taymor is always wrestling with playing it straight or veering into fantasy, and the struggle between the two styles makes the end product feel stuck in the middle.

| Original Score: C | Oct 2, 2020

There are a thousand ways to thoroughly enjoy a not-especially-good film, and Julie Taymor's The Glorias offers up one of them.

| Oct 2, 2020

[The film] is sometimes messy; it's ambitious and artsy in ways that don't always work. But by painting Steinem's story on such a large and intricate canvas, Taymor sets the stage for a new generation of biopics interrogating the legacy of women leaders.

| Oct 1, 2020

The Glorias' may be long, but it tells an important story of American feminism.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2020

With a runtime of two and a half hours, it lasts too long and doesn't go deeply enough to register the way it should.

| Oct 1, 2020

A solid if flawed effort.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2020

Using every tool at her disposal, Taymor crafts an epic tapestry of a remarkable life, paying tribute to the glorious Gloria Steinem.

| Sep 30, 2020

The key performances are strong, but director/co-writer Julie Taymor's movie meanders too much, dragging through the beginning and again toward the end.

| Sep 30, 2020

"The Glorias" is an offbeat biographical tribute that feels like it wants to be offbeater.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2020

Someone this savvy about words and images should have rated a biopic that is, too.

| Sep 30, 2020