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By Toby Woollaston (47) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 01 Aug 2018

Beneath its amiable (and at times quite hilarious) surface is a film that packs the pin-sharp discomfort of feminine rage…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 31 Jul 2018

The film, directed with a fine eye for irony by Swedish filmmaker Bjorn Runge, is a marvelous performance showcase for Pryce and Close, two…

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By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 31 Jul 2018

A portrait of a marriage, complete with baggage, secrets and lies, the film's pulse relies on the complexities of the central relationship…

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By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 30 Jul 2018

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly and that its conclusion perpetuates the type of sympathy that it holds for the character Joan…

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By James Croot (201) for Stuff.co.nz (387) on 30 Jul 2018

Based on Meg Wolitzer's 2003 novel of the same name, The Wife is a slow-burning drama that richly rewards the patient viewer…

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By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 25 Jul 2018

A wonderfully potent study of a marriage corroded by male vanity and female complicity…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for Concrete Playground (635) on 11 Jun 2018

Every moment that Close is on screen, she offers a devastating dissection of a woman sidelined for male glory, in what proves an all-too-recognisable…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 12 Apr 2018

It is a smart, supremely watchable and entertaining film, and Close gives a wonderful star turn…

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By Andrew Barker (315) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Apr 2018

The 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…

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By Nathaniel Rogers (250) for Film Experience (395) on 12 Oct 2017

[Glenn] Close's opacity as an actress, the unknowability of that glacial face, has often been disguised by her sheer volume and ferocity in…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 29 Sep 2017

Björn Runge is in no hurry to reveal his characters' faults or their history, letting his camera linger on Close and Pryce, so we can see…

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By Ben Croll (93) for indieWire (3,631) on 21 Sep 2017

It has a couple of nice reversals, two or three good laugh lines, and a caustic but not too acid skewering of cultural institutions…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 Sep 2017

As fraught with drama as this powder keg of heightened circumstances may be, make no mistake, The Wife is more than an actor’s showcase…

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By Jon Frosch (191) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 15 Sep 2017

Like a bomb ticking away toward detonation, Glenn Close commands the center of The Wife: still, formidable and impossible to look away from…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 11 Sep 2017

Despite high quality performances from Close and Pryce, the film leaves us with question marks over the credibility of the central scenario…

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