No vivacity, no choice, just tragedy. Nothing more to see here, folks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Where many biopics have become generalized, surface-level projects that essentially all go down the same checklist, Blonde takes on a completely unique and arguably camp approach to this genre.

| Jul 17, 2024

Just leave Marilyn alone already.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 3, 2024

It’s a literal descent through madness, brought on by a system and society that builds up individuals only to spit them out the other side.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 31, 2023

Ana de Armas is scintillating in a film that tells the story of pop-culture icon Marilyn Monroe, but Blonde hardly explores who Norma Jeane truly is behind her on-screen avatar.

| Oct 4, 2023

ll the technical elements are remarkable, from cinematography to production design and score. But that the film works at all is down to the extraordinary performance at the heart of it: Ana de Armas carries the film squarely on her shoulders.

| Sep 21, 2023

Blonde has a problem separating the truth from fiction. It is marred with nightmare sequences close to paranoia rather than reality.

| Sep 8, 2023

For all that the film works on a technical level, on a performance level and on a visceral level, it is, frankly, far too one-note and far too... empty to justify its quite punishing 167-minute run time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2023

Blonde’s near-obsession with showing varied abuses of Norma serves no purpose other than to exploit the actual traumas of this young woman.

| Aug 6, 2023

"There’s an overall dismissiveness towards both Monroe and Oates’s complex and infuriating novel that makes the film sit uneasily."

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2023

Director Andrew Dominik's use of dramatic jumps in time, blending of color and black-and-white sequences, and a deranged screenplay at the heart of it all makes Blonde less of a biopic and more of a self-indulgent fable.

| Jul 25, 2023

Displaying the tragedy of Marilynn Monroe. In some ways a horror movie & others a slog of a film that never really finds its footing. Ana De Armas is incredible & the cinematography is mesmerizing but I never found myself fully engaged

| Jul 25, 2023

Marilyn’s ghost was haunting Ana de Armas for a reason.

| Jul 25, 2023

[Blonde will] not only send you down the rabbit hole of stories circling Monroe and get you to watch her films but also make you wonder about the entertainment industry and the media-consuming populace.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2023

It puts the audience in a Twilight Zone-esque state for almost three hours, where you can’t escape or tune off.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 19, 2023

The cruelty seems to be the point of "Blonde," which makes a meandering three-hour movie a tough sell.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2023

"Blonde" is too caught up in its creator’s notion of Norma Jeane, forgetting there was also a person underneath who sometimes functioned and who gave us indelible performances that touched something beyond carnality.

| Jun 6, 2023

Ultimately, it's de Armas who makes Blonde palatable through the rough spots. From one angle, she's made up to be the spitting image of Ms. Monroe, at least the way she looked on the red carpet or when she was ready for her close-up.

| May 30, 2023

By then it is impossible to tell if the confused Dominik is attacking masculinity, Hollywood, and America, or if the film is a howl of revulsion at the existence of women.

| Mar 16, 2023

As it stands everything was done for style, for the look of it, to exist as a living reel of Dominick’s talents. None of it serves to show Marilyn as anything more than a victim.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 15, 2023