Regardless of whether you are looking for drama mixed with superb acting, The Wife is simply not the film to scratch that itch. It is a miscalculating, dreadful, and painfully boring way to spend one hundred minutes.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 7, 2024

The film has its faults, but Glenn Close’s performance ensures that it is also sincere and convincing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2024

With her doubts acting as a juxtaposition to the legitimate chemistry and sense of love between the spouses, her character is fascinating, but Close is what makes the role so astonishing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

“The Wife” is about the men Joan gets to liaise with and the women who stereotype her. It forces you to take a hard look at the stifled voice of an artist and the infinite instances of male privilege and its selfish undercurrents.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

The story is eventually revealed to be a tad far-fetched, but its events make it a page-turner, and Close is not its only first-rate performer.

| Nov 29, 2022

“The Wife” simmers to the point of boiling over, and the outpouring of emotions we get in the third act is all but unavoidable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The final act has the leads throwing verbal haymakers at each other, giving The Wife the juice it sorely needed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2022

The Wife spends too much time investigating a relationship from the outside and not enough time exploring it from the inside.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2022

The Wife, based on Meg Wolitzer's eponymous novel, scripted by Jane Anderson and directed by Bjorn Runge, is a compelling femme-centric drama...

| Sep 30, 2021

I love this movie so much for how it upends the familiar supportive-wife trope in a terrifically feminist way, and then keeps going to shine light on how the smarts and talents of women are constantly belittled...

| Sep 30, 2021

Glenn Close delivers an award-worthy performance in Bjorn Runge's The Wife.

| Sep 30, 2021

Her name is Joan and his name is Joe, suggesting that the boundaries between them are blurred. It is that blurring this movie explores, with a performance of mingled rage, guilt, passion, and integrity by the magnificent Glenn Close.

| Sep 30, 2021

Glenn Close as Joan is a magnificent melting iceberg (...) a woman that signed a Faustian deal which has now reached its inevitable conclusion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2021

Just know that The Wife's ultimate message is that there's nothing more dangerous than a writer whose feelings have been hurt and, remember, Joan was a writer too once.

| Dec 8, 2020

You go to a movie like this to see veteran performers (there's also an expert one by Christian Slater as a snooping journalist) chew on meaty roles. They do not disappoint here.

| Oct 15, 2020

The film may be a strong acting showcase for Glenn Close but Jane Anderson's script brilliantly captures the gender politics of Joan's younger years.

| Oct 8, 2020

It's time for us women to measure our success through our own experiences [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 19, 2020

At long last, Glenn Close's overdue Academy Award won't be ignored. It's with immense joy to watch her work unfold in "The Wife," a powerful human story with complex emotions, narrative twists and timely themes for the #MeToo era.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2020

Its attempts to comment on institutionalized misogyny too often feel like slight repackagings of gender-based clichés, which is hypocritical to say the least.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 25, 2020

For any of its flaws and confused messages, The Wife is a powerful showcase for Close, and that alone is enough of a reason to experience it.

| Jun 23, 2020