The new movie “The Wife” stars Glenn Close, Christian Slater and Jonathan Pryce and its about the sacrifice that some people think they have to make to maintain and save a marriage. The problem is that sometimes when you sacrifice everything for someone else you can lose yourself – along the way. The big revelation of this story about a Nobel Prize winning author Joe Castleman, played by Jonathan Pryce I saw coming early in this story and for me this story was more about a lack of integrity than it was about the sacrifice one person can make for another for love or marriage.

The acting throughout this movie was outstanding, especially with Glenn Close who might receive and Oscar nomination for her performance as the wife of the famous author who sacrifices everything for her marriage. One bad thing about this movie was the constant smoking by too many characters for reasons that probably include funding from some Tobacco company. This is a very unfortunate problem with too many movies today and one day hopefully smoking will be banned from all movies.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this movie is a very high 85% and I agree with this review.

I highly recommend The Wife.

The new movie “Juliet Naked” has many characters and a great deal of dialogue and a story that I thought was too “all over the place” for my tastes. The acting is good from Ethan Hawk, Rose Byrne and Chris O’Dowd and the Rotten Tomatoes rating is a very solid 80% – but I thought that the story about a famous singer in of the 80’s, played by Hawk who has long given up his singing career was not interesting enough to hold my interest. I did notice I was dosing off at around the 3/4 point of this movie because it was getting very boring.

For these reasons I do not recommend Juliet Naked.

The new movie “Searching” is another recent example of a film that is shot entirely with social media within a computer operating system. This seems to be a new film making idea that may have legs and one reason for this has to be a greatly reduced budget.

The story of this film is a timeline of about 17 years as a husband and wife have their first child and some tragic circumstances follow that include the possible kidnapping of the couple’s teenage daughter. I found this movie most impressive while watching the investigation by the father on his and his daughter’s computer as he desperately tries to find his daughter’s whereabouts using websites that include Facebook, Facetime, Google Search, and many other social media methods. I for one did not know that you can perform a Google Search using just an image as this method was used towards the end of the film. The twists and turns as this story develops are very well done and while the ending – that some might think was a little over the top, for me worked extremely well and made sense considering the story up to that point.

Searching stars John Cho and Debra Messing as the police officer who is called in to help finding Cho’s missing daughter. I thought the acting was very well done and the story extremely well told throughout. It all holds your attention and it all makes logical sense – an ingredient lacking in so many movies I have seen recently.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this movie are a very high 91% and I mostly agree with this rating.

I highly recommend Searching.