77
Metascore
36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is a smart, supremely watchable and entertaining film, and Close gives a wonderful star turn.
- 86TheWrapTodd GilchristTheWrapTodd GilchristWhat ultimately works most profoundly for the film is that its intimacy, its specificity, feels less like the culmination of Joan’s life experiences and more like an epiphany, or maybe an origin story, for what’s yet to come from her.
- 83The Film StageJordan RuimyThe Film StageJordan RuimyAs fraught with drama as this powder keg of heightened circumstances may be, make no mistake, The Wife is more than an actor’s showcase. The film itself is superb, a ticking time-bomb of simmering tension which benefits from the audience knowing as little as possible in advance.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschThe Hollywood ReporterJon FroschLike a bomb ticking away toward detonation, Glenn Close commands the center of The Wife: still, formidable and impossible to look away from.
- 80Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversClose plays this ignored, pushed-aside woman like a gathering storm, drawing us into the mind and heart of a heroine who’s not going to take it any more. The actress has received six acting nominations without ever winning an Oscar. The Wife, a funny and fierce showcase for her prodigious talents, might just end the drought. You can’t take your eyes off her.
- 70VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerThe Wife is Close’s film from start to finish, and several of the supporting performances fail to rise to her level, with Pryce and Slater the only ones who manage to impress in her orbit.
- 38Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneGlenn Close's perennial look of astonishment and resilience commands the action to the point of turning every other screen element into a gratuitous prop.