Is it Glenn’s year?

***This Review of The Wife Has a Spoiler Section***

The Wife Non-Spoiler Section

Cast & Crew & Glenn’s Missed Calling - 2:20

Production Notes & The Ultimate Dad Joke - 14:27

Movie Specs & the Difference a Year Makes - 16:04

Expectations & Teaser Reviews - 20:26

Production Values: Just Make Sure the Camera Works - 21:56

Our Oscar Lens Has a Clear Focus - 25:32

The Rest of the Performances - 26:56

Other Script Thoughts & Final Non-Spoiler Thoughts - 31:50

Spoiler Music - 35:30

The Wife Spoiler Section

A Few Worst Scenes - 36:48

A Women’s Empowerment Role? - 41:53

Lots of Best Scenes - 43:26

Plot vs Performance Criticisms - 54:14

Final Grades - 56:57

Outro / Words of Wisdom - 58:51

We’re nearly three quarters into 2018, and Glenn Close stands atop many lists as the leader in the Best Actress Category. Our review of The Wife is why.

The production profile lays the groundwork for our review as usual. Could this finally be the year for Glenn Close to win her first Oscar? We recap all of her Awards history during the cast & crew, share what was definitely her missed calling, and then we cover perhaps the best / worst Dad Joke maybe ever. Our breakdown of the numbers, reviews of the production values and the script - it all orbits around the remarkable performance at the center of this film.

After we give you your money’s worth in the non-spoiler section, there’s a musical interlude to warn you of spoilers, and it’s go-time. We give you the full plot details, mentioning a few worst scenes before harkening back to many more of the better ones. Where will this film rank in our year at large? Will this performance fight off all the oncoming Best Actress hopefuls? There’s certainly a lot to talk through between Mikes.

This is our 16th Oscar Sprint Profile or Movie Event in 2018. We’ve also previewed the rest of the Oscar Contenders in our recent Hollywood Hot Takes episode recapping the buzz coming out of the Fall Film Festivals. We’ve also released 4 episodes covering the Oscar Contender Trailers. Then don’t forget our monthly overviews of theatrical releases, with our October episode coming soon.

Our Oscar coverage breaks for some fun diversions into The Conjuring Universe, MCU, and Mission Impossible films. We’ve also enjoyed many an Oscar Retrospective, looking back at movie history from Best Pictures to Original Songs. So if you’ve liked our other programming tendencies thus far, you may love what we have in store for the rest of the month, including a Halloween themed Oscar Retrospective.

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