Gloria
Reception

Gloria (1999)

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5.9
4 platform(s) · 6 ratings 961 votes
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Audience 6.2/10 12 votes Synced 2026-08-28
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External reviews

Lawrence Van Gelder · The New York Times 70.00/100.00

A smoother, funnier, more suspenseful and more endearing version of the 1980 John Cassavetes film of the same title.

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Mick LaSalle · San Francisco Chronicle 50.00/100.00

It's entertainment, but mild entertainment.

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Liam Lacey · The Globe and Mail (Toronto) 63.00/100.00

If the external threat in the plot were a little more credible, this would be an annoying distraction. But in the context of the rest of Gloria, it's a safe strategy: When not watching Sharon Stone act, audiences can fall back on just watching Sharon Stone.

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James Berardinelli · ReelViews 50.00/100.00

Just because it's not boring, that doesn't mean it's worth plunking down the price of admission.

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Charles Taylor · Salon 40.00/100.00

The most dispiriting thing about Gloria is that it's further evidence that filmmakers just don't know what to do with Sharon Stone.

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Jack Mathews · Los Angeles Times 40.00/100.00

Not so much a remake of a film as it is a remake of an overcooked performance--a case of ham imitating ham.

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Owen Gleiberman · Entertainment Weekly 50.00/100.00

Stone's latest penance is Gloria, the Sidney Lumet-directed dud that sprung from the singularly bad idea of remaking John Cassavetes' oddball 1980 character study. I mean, really, did anyone even like the original?

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Sandra Contreras · TV Guide Magazine 40.00/100.00

A pale imitation of the John Cassavettes original.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum · Chicago Reader 40.00/100.00

Cassavetes's “Gloria” may have been action-packed nonsense, but it was enjoyable precisely because it was all of a piece. This Gloria is simply pieces--a few of them enjoyable, most of them not.

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