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Gloria

Gloria

1980
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 3m
Jack Dawn and his family are eliminated by the mob, because he was their accountant and was feeding information to the FBI... (imdb)
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Gloria

1980
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 3m
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Rated 25 Jul 2021
80
77th
Gena Rowlands could totally carry an action vehicle after watching this.
Rated 20 Nov 2016
55
17th
Fuck John Adames. Cinematic Cyanide.
Rated 18 Mar 2010
50
12th
It's signature Cassavetes material but the acting is so execrable in this that it ruins the film. The first 15 minutes are textbook examples of poor acting with an equally terrible Buck Henry with John Adames. Even the usually good Gena Rowlands come off as rather flat in some scenes. It's unfortunate because the story had potential but the flaws weigh it down. There are some rather great scenic 80's NY locations though but that's about it.
Rated 11 Mar 2011
2
21st
Even knowing this was nothing more than a cash grab from Cassavetes, I was still expecting something more. The script is terribly conventional, even cliche. The report between Rowlands and the kid is stilted and awkward. The music is sometimes inappropriate in tone and always overused. An all-around sloppily composed and insignificant film.
Rated 24 Jun 2018
75
60th
Cassavetes uses a cliched plot about an non-compatible duo forming a bond: in this case a young kid on the run for the mob and a hardnosed mature woman as a way to show the grittier shadier sides of New York. If only they could have used a less annoying kid with better acting skills, this could have been really good.
Rated 23 Jan 2022
70
52nd
Gena Rowlands is so, so good. How did she only win an Honourary Academy Award? I am retroactively giving her the Best Actress award for each year she acted in a film. It's only fair.
Rated 13 Mar 2022
65
17th
All points are for Gena Rowlands who holds this increasingly tiresome film together & would've made a good film a genuine classic. First of all, her costar OBJECTIVELY CAN NOT act & the film feels like it was written & directed on the fly given all the contrivances (how do the gangsters keep finding her?) & string of inexplicable plotholes. It's a padded chase movie w/ repetitive Kids-Say-The-Darndest-Things interludes that critics would normally despise if Cassavetes wasn't behind the camera.
Rated 30 May 2023
80
77th
A guy walked through frame at one point that kind of looked like Tom Noonan, and I thought to myself, huh, I didn't know there were two people that looked like Tom Noonan on this whole planet. Turns out it just was Tom Noonan in his first acting gig in the role of "2nd Man," because of course there aren't two people who look like Tom Noonan on this planet
Rated 16 Jan 2007
65
25th
Gena Rowlands is good, but the film suffers heavily from Precocious Child Syndrome. There's not a whole lot to this movie... it's mostly the same scenes (running from the mob, confrontation with the mob, escape from mob) repeated over and over again. But, except for the kid, it's not bad.
Rated 08 Nov 2007
60
54th
Cassavetes's move into the suspense genre is disappointing, but not embarrassing. The writing is a lot weaker compared to his great movies of yore -- the kid's text in particular is consistently ridiculous. He's not the best child actor I've seen, either. The music's good but there's too much of it. The story is mediocre and repetitive. Still, Gloria has its charm, it's pretty captivating and it works as sort of a subversive take on an essentially Hollywood premise.
Rated 13 Nov 2007
91
76th
I kinda like that weird ugly wooden kid! Plus there's also a scene between Gena Rowlands and her gangster kingpin ex-lover which is classic Cassavetes.
Rated 02 Mar 2008
58
32nd
# 833
Rated 29 Mar 2010
85
66th
Cassavetes shows he can construct a conventional thriller, delivering the necessary suspense and thrills. But this thriller has something others do not have: a fine performance by Gena Rowland as a streetwise broad with a heart of gold. Sounds like a cliche, but it isn't. Not the way Rowlands does it.
Rated 27 Jun 2010
80
68th
I don't know how believable all this is, but it mostly works. A good little story for a genre movie -- a damned soul trying to do one right thing in her life, finally -- and Cassavetes cares enough about making the gal and the kid believably human that I enjoyed seeing this from start to finish
Rated 20 Dec 2011
70
72nd
Gloria is almost completely devoid of the vital spark that permeated Cassavetes's work in the previous two decades. It feels flat and almost lifeless by comparison. That said, it's still a decent enough effort carried by an awesome performance by Gena Rowlands.
Rated 12 Dec 2012
75
81st
Mother of "Leon" (but the kid was terrible. worst than Let the Right One In's boy).
Rated 18 Jul 2016
85
59th
Movie 2200. Viewed July 17, 2016. The Cassavetes touch makes this beautifully layered, inquisitive and propulsive. His fluid, roving, close-up-favoring camera is still used to interrogate and analyze his characters, but now it is also a means by which he links together thrilling action sequences. That's the duality that the entire film straddles; it's another Cassavetes portrait of despair, an achingly realistic film about being on the run, but also a viscerally satisfying series of chases.
Rated 27 Aug 2016
11
79th
really GREAT film with a great story. kept me hooked throughout. (the trailer in the description here is for the wrong movie) gena rowlands plays one of the most believable strong woman roles out there (it feels natural, not forced like its trying to beat a message over your head, you get shes a badass because that is truly who she is) only negative is the kid actor doesnt know how to emote or do dialogue very well. other than that stellar flick.
Rated 21 Nov 2016
66
73rd
Saw this as a Mystery Movie Night selection at Prince Charles Cinema. My first visit there, so this bit of personal trivia seems appropriate. Seeing it was directed by Cassavetes I wasn't expecting semi-action movie with a kick-ass female character. Neat premise, but the plot isn't tight enough, too much coincidences for my liking. It still has that Cassavetes touch (gritty New York, dialogues...), but it falls short of directors greats.
Rated 11 Aug 2019
90
93rd
This time an intersectional story of subaltern resistance, with the usual "anti-dramatic" narration of Cassavetes. C. bravely paints the picture of a bad-ass mafioso woman, who is in the beginning deceptively depicted as a "crazy cat lady." C. plays with the expectations of the viewer in the manner he approaches the P. Rican kid as well. He is precarious as a lone immigrant, yet he's already initiated the behavioral codes of masculinity, the latter of which is masterfully criticized by C.
Rated 06 Sep 2020
62
35th
Glória estreava há 40 anos no Festival de Veneza. Na real esse é o pior Cassavetes que vi na vida, muito por conta da totalmente equivocada trilha sonora de Bill Conti, jesus, que trilha sonora melodramática HORROROSA. Não fosse por ela, seria um filmaço. Infelizmente é um dos raros Cassavetes que não possuo em mídia física. Blu-ray rip RARBG.
Rated 10 Jul 2021
70
57th
i feel like there's a whole genre that targets, intentionally or not, loner filmgoers so that they realize how they're trying to make up for what they lack in their lives: any kind of bond. this is probably me being captain obvious but considering different moods of this *genre* from alice in the cities to even leon, i think it's interesting that supposedly lost people find their footing with a child they don't necessarily want to be around of.
Rated 09 Sep 2023
60
35th
Akin to NYC traffic, this mostly-conventional run-from-the-mob flick races full-throttle with its goofy humor (and incredible background shots) during the interminable chases, yet comes to a screeching halt with such terrible acting (other than Rowlands, who carries the film on her shoulders) and improbable contrivances. It's quite fun while watching, but not one that you want to think through afterwards.
Rated 16 Nov 2023
68
35th
A Cassavetes neo-noir with Gena Rowlands essentially playing an action hero? Yes, please. This is a great screenplay with a typically great performance from Rowlands, who plays a fascinating character. Unfortunately, it is dragged down GREATLY by the kid actor, who doesn't ring true at all. With the right kid in that role this could have been amazing, but I couldn't stand the performance and it almost ruined things for me. Still more good than bad, though.
Rated 19 Feb 2024
20
5th
Really didn't go for Cassavete's attempt at a counter-conventional thriller. As much as I love Gena to bits, I was pained by her performance as Gloria, and then Jesus Christ the kid.... It feels pointless, repetitive and dull, and I'm sorry to say it. Occasionally mildly amusing.

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