The Artist's Wife

Massively unremarkable...

Olin's great... Just not great enough.

Lacking the boldness of originality and substantial character development, The Artist's Wife nonetheless showcases Olin's best performance in years and a brittle brilliance from Dern.

Olin portrays Claire's disappointment compellingly, with intelligence and gentle depth.

Lovely acting, but that's about it.

[A]n absorbing, at times moving look at a woman caught between her own artistic and emotional desires and her devotion to a man who doesn't seem to deserve her.

Good performances dont always paper over the cracks, and while the cast do their best to make you care, The Artists Wife is too slight to make much of an impact.

Olin almost makes The Artist's Wife a watchable film.

But suddenly she's behaving almost as unpredictably as he is, a fact that confuses the narrative arc of Tom Dolby's drama but doesn't totally spoil it.

You never get much sense of what the relationship was like before Richard became ill so it's hard to mourn its loss, unlike in other films about dementia...