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Blonde

2022

Andrew Dominik

Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Julianne Nicholson ...

5.6

10,319

Drama After a traumatic childhood, and after appearing in the forties on the covers of a few magazines and calendars, the attractive young Norma Jeane becomes an actress in the Hollywood of the fifties. She soon becomes world famous under the stage name 'Marilyn Monroe', becoming the biggest sex-symbol on the planet. But her acclaimed screen appearances contrast with the love problems, exploitation, abuse of power and drug addiction she faces ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Damon Wise Deadline	"'Blonde' takes a blowtorch to the entire concept of the Hollywood biopic and arrives at something almost without precedent (...) And with de Armas as his muse, Dominik has found an astonishing way to re-tell it."
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Ana de Armas’ haunted Marilyn Monroe drowns in the excesses of Andrew Dominik’s woozy reflection on celebrity (...) Either despite or because of all that, it’s a must-see."
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Ana de Armas is extraordinary as Marilyn Monroe in this severe, provocative biopic (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"'Blonde' is riveting, even mesmerizing, but eventually you'll want to turn your eyes away as this lurid display becomes just too much (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"De Armas has to create every nuance of Monroe’s fabulous surface, and she does (...) In “Blonde,” she gives us nothing less than what we came for. She becomes Marilyn Monroe."
		Sophie Monks Kaufman IndieWire	"Ana de Armas throws herself into a bizarre drama that only seems to want to deliver a story about a lifetime of victimization and exploitation."
		Peter Travers ABC News	"'Blonde' is hard to watch, but impossible to forget"
		Jo-Ann Titmarsh London Evening Standard	"Ana de Armas embodies Monroe’s sexiness and vulnerability but is given frustratingly little chance to express her wit and intelligence (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"A brutal, nearly-three-hour sit, Andrew Dominik’s bold and complex imagining of Marilyn Monroe’s life is a fascinating alternative to the traditional biopic."
		Leslie Felperin The Guardian	"Some like it rotten: Monroe biopic is moving, explicit and intensely irritating (...) Blonde is, by the end, all a bit much – in every sense. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Rafaela Sales Ross BBC	"Incendiary (...) Far from faultless in its disquieting gaze, Blonde's greatest merit is its frankness – it tells you what it is about to do and then does it (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Catherine Bray Empire	"There’s a fine line between depicting the way Marilyn Monroe was underestimated, and joining in with that assessment. Blonde doesn’t always wind up the right side of that line (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"The role of Marilyn Monroe inhabits Ana de Armas — like a tortured, possibly malevolent spirit.(...) Blonde is beautiful, mesmerizing, and, at times, deeply moving"
		Lex Briscuso SlashFilm	"De Armas' dazzling screen presence is inarguable. But with a disjointed directorial eye and a messy script, de Armas is simply doing the best she can within (...) the chaotic world the film itself forces her to be a part of"
		Ben Croll The Wrap	"The filmmaker's level of formal control is exemplary and precise, and his lead actress game for whatever comes her way. Only one can't shake the feeling that all of it runs against the film's ostensible message"
		Jenny Nulf Austin Chronicle	"When de Armas’ performance is given the space to be quiet and chilling, 'Blonde' suddenly hits, and what once felt hollow feels painfully viscera (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"This one feels hollow and left me cold, despite the visual splendor and a committed turn from Ana de Armas as Marilyn (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		M.N. Miller Ready Steady Cut	"The movie is carried on the back of Ana de Armas’s career-best performance. She is spectacular here. Armas’s performance is an intentional caricature of Hollywood lore (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"For better, and for considerably worse, Blonde is a voyeuristic reinvention of a sad life blighted by misogyny, draped in technical know-how and an empathetic performance"
		Jake Cole Slant	"[It] is the worst kind of feminism, one so absorbed in the desire to 'save' a woman that it victimizes her as much as possible to make its redemption of her that much more praiseworthy (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"She was an actress of uncommon talent. But once again a director is more interested in examining her body (literally, in this case) than getting inside her mind. (...) Watching “Blonde,” I wondered if Dominik had ever actually watched a Marilyn Monroe film, had seen the transcendent talent, the brilliant comic timing, the phrasing, gestures and grace?"
		Todd Gilchrist AV Club	"What Ana de Armas does in 'Blonde' is nothing short of transformative, but unfortunately, the film will likely do little to change the way people see Marilyn Monroe"
		Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"Ana de Armas is great as Marilyn Monroe (...) But while she captures Monroe’s breathy voice, physicality and fragility perfectly, she gets little chance to showcase her strength or smarts (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"It is not a movie one “enjoys.” It’s a complicated, challenging watch, but it’s also a great work of art (...) If you have a strong stomach, it’s a much watch, and de Armas is extraordinary in her best showcase to date"

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