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Alynda Wheat, People: POOR (cg) "...tone-deaf... Madonna can't keep her camera still or coax a lifelike performance out of Abbie Cornish, who looks bored." (Read the full review...) 138 words, 02/02/12 Richard Corliss, Time: POOR "...we suspect that, if viewers emerging from this movie were asked to name their worst of the year, they'd cry 'W.E.,' 'W.E.,' 'W.E.,' all the way home." (Read the full review...) 698 words, 12/09/11 David Germain, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "...poorly conceived, awkwardly orchestrated... The images have the sheen of a really grand music video or perfume commercial, and the movie has about as much insight." (Read the full review...) 571 words, 02/03/12 Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: POOR (cg) "...the cinematic equivalent of a glossy coffee-table book: stylish images galore, but it only holds interest for 10 minutes." (Read the full review...) 142 words, 02/02/12 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: FAIR (cg) "...a desultory vanity project... But for those very reasons, 'W.E.,' by world-renowned personage and lesser-known filmmaker Madonna, is not without twisted interest." (Read the full review...) 248 words, 01/27/12 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: POOR (cg) "By the time you realize you don't know what's going on you will have stopped caring. Consider that a mercy." (Read the full review...) 231 words, 02/03/12 Claudia Puig, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "The dialogue is particularly wooden, and the entire project feels more like an extended music video than a narrative film.... There is, however, plenty of pretentious folderol." (Read the full review...) 446 words, 02/03/12 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...elegant, ambitious and relentlessly monotonous... Its period details seem authentic, its casting of historical figures is convincing, and its visual style is mannered..." (Read the full review...) 799 words, 02/10/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: FAIR "As a mystical female friendship movie, it has its pull, but it never coheres, shredded by its editing and its pretensions, like Mrs. Simpson dancing to the Sex Pistols..." (Read the full review...) 872 words, 02/03/12 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "...while it cannot be counted as a successful directorial effort, there are genuine elements of interest here. The most notable is a nervy central performance from Andrea Riseborough..." (Read the full review...) 336 words, 02/03/12 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Far too simplistic and borderline offensive... essentially says all it takes for a woman to feel fulfilled is the love of a good man and a good martini close at hand." (Read the full review...) 679 words, 12/09/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "I found the movie fascinating. Except for the boring bits." (Read the full review...) 758 words, 02/03/12 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: WEAK (cg) "...this is a seriously intentioned picture, not a vanity project. It is also seriously wrongheaded. 'W.E.' trips all over its own ungainly storyline..." (Read the full review...) 476 words, 02/10/12 John Anderson, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "Perversely intriguing, less because of the film than the filmmaker." (Read the full review...) 247 words, 03/09/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...elegant, ambitious and relentlessly monotonous... Its period details seem authentic, its casting of historical figures is convincing, and its visual style is mannered..." (Read the full review...) 799 words, 02/10/12 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...the work of a woman who apparently hasn't spent time with normal human beings in a while.... Madonna's anachronistic use of music is the least of her movie's problems." (Read the full review...) 264 words, 02/01/12 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: WEAK (cg) "...a glorious mess of a disappointing costume drama, which shows all the directing restraint of a kid with a new box of paints and not much more focus." (Read the full review...) 825 words, 02/03/12 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: WEAK (cg) "...a heavily made-up face masquerading as a movie and demanding to be admired - demands that might just leave you with an acute pain in the other end." (Read the full review...) 666 words, 02/03/12 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...basically a lesser take on 'The Hours,' with two overlapping stories instead of three and none of the emotional depth." (Read the full review...) 171 words, 02/02/12
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: WEAK (cg) "...a gorgeous mess. Both frantic and inert, the strained effort to wring heroic meaning from two un-heroic characters proves a task too daunting for even Madonna's flinty determination." (Read the full review...) 680 words, 02/10/12 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE (cg) "Madonna, don't preach: If material things mean so little, why photograph them with such obvious care?" (Read the full review...) 624 words, 02/10/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "The film's few grace notes come from the cast.... Madonna gorges on glamour, architectural porn and haute couture but starves the mind." (Read the full review...) 355 words, 03/02/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: WEAK (cg) "The production is nice looking, and telling the Edward-and-Wallis story from her side is an interesting idea, but it's one that Madonna simply can't pull off here." (Read the full review...) 630 words, 02/17/12 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...at its best it shows one strong, nervy woman considering another and weighing the costs of will." (Read the full review...) 691 words, 02/10/12 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "Madonna has flair without ability, but she does have flair.... She is trying to do a job, and the results may be off, but they're not contemptible.... it's sincere and ambitious." (Read the full review...) 553 words, 02/10/12 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "If 'W.E.' were a musical, you'd walk out humming the earrings -- and the bathtubs, and the silver, and the yachts and the hats." (Read the full review...) 283 words, 02/10/12 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: MODERATE (cg) "...a lurid movie, visually and dramatically, and it's acted unsteadily by the principles..." (Read the full review...) 344 words, 03/16/12 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "It's hard to hate a movie that escorts us to such lovely locales, but instead of marking the territory as her own, Madonna has directed a potentially provocative story like a virgin." (Read the full review...) 362 words, 03/16/12 Tom Long, Detroit News: FAIR (cg) "...not awful. It looks quite nice at times, and Andrea Riseborough delivers an exquisite if overdrawn performance as Wallis." (Read the full review...) 301 words, 02/10/12 Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: MODERATE (cg) "I never thought I'd say this, but at least as far as directing goes, Madonna needs to loosen up a little." (Read the full review...) 710 words, 03/02/12
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...the work of a woman who apparently hasn't spent time with normal human beings in a while.... Madonna's anachronistic use of music is the least of her movie's problems." (Read the full review...) 264 words, 02/01/12 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: POOR (cg) "Nobody does vulgarity like Madonna, especially when she's being tasteful, as in her directorial debut of this grotesque biopic." (Read the full review...) 152 words, 02/09/12 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: POOR (cg) "...a glorified cinematic romance novel with blindingly slick, expensive production values that never begin to mask the fundamental emptiness at its core." (Read the full review...) 365 words, 02/02/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: MODERATE (cg) "...something of a slick mess.... at times comically bad. But it's also criminally watchable... I couldn't take my eyes off it." (Read the full review...) 1,011 words, 12/08/11 Diego Costa, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "Madonna handles this film like a masterful aesthetician. The absolutely enthralling soundtrack patches everything together along with the grainy handheld close-ups..." (Read the full review...) 810 words, 12/11/11 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...basically a lesser take on 'The Hours,' with two overlapping stories instead of three and none of the emotional depth." (Read the full review...) 171 words, 02/02/12
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Can 'W.E.' be a provocation by accident and still be worthwhile?... the techniques speak a brutal honesty about both Wallis and her biographer..." (Read the full review...) 908 words, 02/03/12 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: FAIR "As a mystical female friendship movie, it has its pull, but it never coheres, shredded by its editing and its pretensions, like Mrs. Simpson dancing to the Sex Pistols..." (Read the full review...) 872 words, 02/03/12 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: WEAK "We don't want to hear any more about ancient constitutional crises. We want to watch a three-way with a former King of England, in a bungalow. Madonna, of all people, missed a trick." (Read the full review...) 812 words, 01/30/12 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Far too simplistic and borderline offensive... essentially says all it takes for a woman to feel fulfilled is the love of a good man and a good martini close at hand." (Read the full review...) 679 words, 12/09/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: WEAK "...a reasonably watchable and mostly non-narrative curiosity, a handsome fantasy mounted by someone who has no storytelling ability and no connection to real life." (Read the full review...) 855 words, 09/14/11
Leslie Felperin, Daily Variety: WEAK "Burdened with risible dialogue and weak performances... doesn't have much going for it apart from lavish production design and terrific, well-researched costumes..." (Read the full review...) 982 words, 09/01/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "Hop-scotches between glamorous locations, as well as between decades and story strands... as easy on the eyes and ears as it is embalmed from any dramatic point of view." (Read the full review...) 817 words, 09/01/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Far too simplistic and borderline offensive... essentially says all it takes for a woman to feel fulfilled is the love of a good man and a good martini close at hand." (Read the full review...) 679 words, 12/09/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: FAIR "As a mystical female friendship movie, it has its pull, but it never coheres, shredded by its editing and its pretensions, like Mrs. Simpson dancing to the Sex Pistols..." (Read the full review...) 872 words, 02/03/12 John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Can 'W.E.' be a provocation by accident and still be worthwhile?... the techniques speak a brutal honesty about both Wallis and her biographer..." (Read the full review...) 908 words, 02/03/12
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