Featured Audience Ratings

• Jim H

  
  This film juxtaposes the romance between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII with a neglected woman in the twentieth century who entertains an obsession with the story. This is one of the worst films I've seen in a long time. Madonna is a horrid director. There is absolutely no… More
  This film juxtaposes the romance between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII with a neglected woman in the twentieth century who entertains an obsession with the story. This is one of the worst films I've seen in a long time. Madonna is a horrid director. There is absolutely no restraint, subtlety, or character development. It's just bad, bad, bad. But let's try to take the film on its own terms. The thesis is that history remembers Edward's abdication of the throne and lauds or judges him based on what he gave up for Wallis Simpson. But, the film wonders, what about what she gave up for him? Well, what did she give up? This film doesn't answer its own question. Some may judge Simpson as a home-wrecker, but the most accurate reading of history judges British royal mores, not the actors. And because Madonna has no feeling for British customs, we don't get to see these social pressures in action. And I still have no idea how the modern day plot informs the British plot. Overall, anyone with any taste should see any other film, maybe <I>The King's Speech</i>, which overlaps <i>W.E.</i>.

• Cynthia S

  
  I thought that this movie was beautifully done. I have read some not so kind reviews, but I decided to watch it anyway do to the subject matter. I was very pleasantly surprised by how well this movie was done. Good casting, great cinematography, good pacing, nice score, and I like the… More
  I thought that this movie was beautifully done. I have read some not so kind reviews, but I decided to watch it anyway do to the subject matter. I was very pleasantly surprised by how well this movie was done. Good casting, great cinematography, good pacing, nice score, and I like the honest portrayal of the two main characters. This was actually one of the best movies I've seen in awhile.

• Carlos M

  
  Madonna employs her shallow view of life in this self-indulgent project of pure vanity to tell two insipid stories that hardly blend together. An excruciating and unfocused mess about two pathetic women full of self-pity and with no self-respect.

• Christopher H

  
  Besides a stylish and evocative piano number, Madonna's latest directing project falls flat, and hard. With a repetitious and unexplained connection between Abbie Cornish's character and Andrea Riseborough as Wallis Simpson, the film tends to be more about violence towards… More
  Besides a stylish and evocative piano number, Madonna's latest directing project falls flat, and hard. With a repetitious and unexplained connection between Abbie Cornish's character and Andrea Riseborough as Wallis Simpson, the film tends to be more about violence towards women and a biographical look at the relationship between King Edward's VIII and Mrs. Simpson than anything emotionally connectable. The film bores to the point of exhaustion and feels too much like a big budget flop.

• Philip P

  
  If you were at all interested in the other side of the story that was happening during 2010's best picture winner "The King's Speech" well, now you have the chance to see it play out in director Madonna's beautiful-looking if not slow moving tribute titled… More
  If you were at all interested in the other side of the story that was happening during 2010's best picture winner "The King's Speech" well, now you have the chance to see it play out in director Madonna's beautiful-looking if not slow moving tribute titled "W./E.". The film tells the story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. How the King of England fell so deeply in love with a twice divorced American woman that he abdicated the throne, his title, and his family to spend his life with her. Pretty crazy right? Madonna, who took on the screenwriting challenge here as well, has made their story a mirror to the more present day life of Wally Winthrop, a young married woman who is obsessed with what she believes to be this ultimate kind of fairy tale love. Needless to say, her marriage is not all chocolates and roses. She begins to research their story and naturally finds out that it isn't all it was made out to be. It is interesting to get the story from the woman's perspective as most historians look to Edward and all that he gave up to be the woman, but the film is right in assuming its position of what made this woman so appealing? What was it about her that made the King literally give up everything? The bad part about the film is that it never really feels like it delves into those details. I enjoy Abbie Cornish and her work, but in all honesty would have rather seen a straightforward biopic if Madonna was going to do their story justice, then go all in. That said, she could have easily done it with Andrea Riseborough as Wallis and James D'Arcy as Edward. they are superb in their roles and the characters they've embodied do indeed deserve their own film. A film that is as exciting and intriguing as there romance, not one as boring and uptight as "W./E.".