W.E. Reviews



  • W.E.
    • Genre : Drama, Biography
    • Release Date :
    • MPAA Rating : R
    • Duration : 118 minute(s)
    • Production Budget : -
    • Studio : The Weinstein Company
    • Official Site : http://www.we-movie.com/
    • Reviews Rate
      Not quite bad, but it's not recommended either.

    • Readers Rate
      5 of 5

Movie Reviews

  • we don't want to hear any more about ancient constitutional crises
    by Anthony Lane [New Yorker ]
  • watch W.E. as if flipping through a stack of glossy mags with a pal, oohing and aahing about stuff without caring a fiddle-dee-dee about substance
    Review rate : C- by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]
  • the upshot is that instead of a film about a love that conquered a king and nearly undid a kingdom
    Review rate : D by Manohla Dargis [New York Times ]
  • the rest, unfortunately, feels artificial, programmed, rote
    by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]
  • the place that inspires the kind of intimate storytelling that makes for great movies
    1.5 of 4 by Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]
  • the most notable is a nervy central performance from Andrea Riseborough, who plays true-life Baltimore socialite Wallis Simpson
    Review rate : D by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]
  • the film falls increasingly deeper into the fetishization it takes as its subject
    by Karina Longworth [Village Voice ]
  • the entire project feels more like an extended music video than a narrative film
    by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
  • sad and silly and sweet
    by Andrew O'Hehir [Salon.com ]
  • not content with going deeper into that bizarre romance, Madonna adds a new wrinkle in the form of a contemporary Manhattanite
    1 of 4 by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
  • historical accuracy and style
    by David Noh [Film Journal International ]
  • far too simplistic and borderline offensive
    1 of 5 by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times ]
  • burdened with risible dialogue and weak performances, pic doesn't have much going for it apart from lavish production design and terrific
    by Leslie Felperin [Variety ]
  • an embellishment of an already notorious romance rather than a twice-lathered soap opera
    by William Goss [Film.com ]
  • an egotistical film with such a terribly warped sense of purpose
    Review rate : D+ by Dave Calhoun [Time Out New York ]

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