Gloria is a 1999 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet from a screenplay by Steve Antin.

In April 1997, Sharon Stone was cast as Gloria Swenson, a role that earned Gena Rowlands an Oscar nomination, and the filmmakers began to search for a "boy, age 7–9" to play Nicky.

[4] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 26 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[5] Godfrey Cheshire of Variety stated, "A travesty trying to be a Sharon Stone vehicle, this wooden crime yarn easily qualifies as the most tired, unexciting mob movie in recent memory.

"[6] Jack Mathews of the Los Angeles Times opined that "the movie exists as an acting exercise for Stone, which turns out--predictably--to be all sweat and no Gloria.

"[7] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly described the film as "the Sidney Lumet-directed dud that sprung from the singularly bad idea of remaking John Cassavetes' oddball 1980 character study.

"[8] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone claimed, "It's early in the year, but I'll bet that Gloria grabs a top spot on any list of the worst movies of 1999.

"[9] Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post wrote that "G-L-O-R-I-A is A-W-F-U-L" and "I found myself praying that the film would jam and melt and, well past the halfway point, it did, and I was sprung, 30 minutes early.

"[11] On the other hand, Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times gave Gloria a positive review, calling it "a smoother, funnier, more suspenseful and more endearing version of the 1980 John Cassavetes film of the same title" and writing that "Stone, who in one guise or another has always been a treat, turns in a performance that definitely merits the key to Noo Yawk.