Gloria

Gena Rowlands could totally carry an action vehicle after watching this.

Fuck John Adames. Cinematic Cyanide.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have to admit ... probably at least to myself ... that I don't really like this film. To some degree my problem with it is John Adames, who's really just a terrible little actor, but watching it again, I think my problem with it runs a lot deeper. It's a weird, lackadaisical film that has a really good Gina Rowlands performance at it's center, but is mostly just her and the kid running around aimlessly with gangsters appearing seemingly out of nowhere.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mother of "Leon" (but the kid was terrible. worst than Let the Right One In's boy).

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.