Atom User Reviews for Gloria Bell
Save your money and time.
You know it’s a boring movie when you hope that one of her one night stands goes all “Looking For Mr. Goodbar” on her. No such luck. 😳
It’s great to see a complex female character, but the complexity never gets any deeper when she’s given the opportunities. It ends up about as awkward & interesting as an uncomfortable dinner party for 60somethings.
great for middle age and older adults
Dull
Metacritic
Moore’s subtle, empathetic work elevates what could be dismissed as a small-scale, even banal story.
Moore lets us see, through her quietly shining performance, that Gloria believes in love, in the way an old song can make you feel a little younger, and in the power of dressing up and hitting a dance floor by yourself, moving as if in a trance, letting the music take you to a better place.
After similarly sumptuous but somewhat tragic films like A Fantastic Woman and Disobedience, Gloria Bell feels more life-affirming, more explicitly comic. In many respects it’s a beat-for-beat remake of Gloria, with only a few cultural details swapped out, but the tale translates quite well.