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Blonde, Good Mourning and Disney's Pinocchio lead 2022 Razzie Award nominees, celebrating the 'worst' of film

As Hollywood swings into Oscars season, the satirical Razzie Awards are preparing to give Golden Raspberries to some of the less-celebrated films of 2022.

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Nick Cave names Netflix’s divisive Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde as his ‘favourite film of all time’

Cave and Warren Ellis collaborated on the recording soundtrack of the Netflix movie

The Independent UK

Blonde author breaks silence on Marilyn Monroe film criticism

The controversial Netflix biopic has proved extremely divisive since its release last week and has been slammed by many viewers and critics

Manchester Evening News

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Mary McNamara: 'Blonde' and the new Anthony Bourdain book are suicide whodunits in which the answer is obvious

Our cultural hypocrisy toward mental illness and addiction, not to mention fame and fortune, is never more evident than when some poor famous soul dies by suicide. "Why?" we ask. "Why would a person who seemed to have it all end their own life?" And then someone writes a book…

Los Angeles Times

Em Rata Blasts The Fuck Out Of The Marilyn Monroe Biopic Blonde For ‘Fetishising Female Pain’

"So done with the fetishisation of female pain and suffering."

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Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde scenes accused of 'anti-abortion propaganda'

Viewers of Marilyn Monroe's biopic were upset about one particular scene but the movie's director Andrew Dominik hit back and explained his reasoning

Daily Mirror

Is Blonde a true story? The latest Netflix drama about Marilyn Monroe

The brand-new movie by director Andrew Dominik has caused quite the stir online due to its portrayal of America's Sweetheart.

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Blonde review: Dull trauma porn with no idea what it’s trying to say

Andrew Dominik’s biopic is degrading, exploitative and misogynist, yet mercilessly boring

The Independent UK

Viewers slam ‘disgusting’ Netflix film Blonde as ‘horrible representation’ of Marilyn Monroe’s life

The controversial film has been criticised by many viewers who have accused it of 'doing nothing to truly honour' the Hollywood star

Chronicle Live

Blonde review: Dull trauma porn with no idea what it’s trying to say

Andrew Dominik’s biopic is degrading, exploitative and misogynist, yet mercilessly boring

The Independent UK

"Blonde": Marilyn Monroe deserves better

Netflix's insufferable fictionalized chronicle of the starlet's life is one of the worst tragic icon movies ever

Salon

Blonde: Ana de Armas plays victimised Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s long-awaited, Netflix-backed take on the Hollywood starlet

Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates's fictionalised interpretation of the star’s tragic life, is the first movie due for release on a streaming service slapped with the NC-17 rating.

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Recreating Marilyn Monroe’s Iconic Outfits in ‘Blonde’

Marilyn Monroe’s on-screen costumes are almost as iconic as her. Think of the hot pink strapless gown she wore to sing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.” Or the white halter cocktail dress that billowed up over a subway grate in “The Seven Year Itch.” They have been recreated, reimagined…

Asharq Al-Awsat

It’s best that Marilyn Monroe doesn’t know what Andrew Dominik really thinks of her

Andrew Dominik spent more than a decade making a movie about Marilyn Monroe. So you’d think he would hold her in higher esteem. Apparently not.

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The blonde bombshell returns: Andrew Dominik's take on Marilyn Monroe

Director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik's image-fuelled adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's novel "Blonde" is now available on Netflix. Film critic Lisa Nesselson tells us why what the director has called "an emotional nightmare fairy tale" is a powerful immersion into the circumstances of Marilyn Monroe, a performer who was anything…

The Guardian - US

Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is betrayed by Blonde

Andrew Dominik’s explicit, button-pushing take on the life of the superstar uses shock tactics to replace insight and depth

The Independent UK

Blonde director says he wasn’t ‘concerned with being tasteful’ in his depiction of Marilyn Monroe’s abortion

New psychological drama ‘is supposed to leave you shaking,’ Andrew Dominik said

The Independent UK

Joyce Carol Oates says Marilyn Monroe went through ‘much worse’ than anything in Blonde

New Netflix psychological drama biopic is based on Oates’ novel of the same name

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The Independent UK

Recreating Marilyn Monroe’s iconic outfits in ‘Blonde’

Marilyn Monroe’s on-screen costumes are almost as iconic as her

The Independent UK

Joyce Carol Oates says Marilyn Monroe went through ‘much worse’ than anything in Blonde

New Netflix psychological drama biopic is based on Oates’ novel of the same name

The Guardian - UK

Blonde review – a hellish vision of Marilyn and her monsters

Andrew Dominik’s gothic portrait of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe – an extraordinary Ana de Armas – is a fever dream of childhood trauma haunting adult life

The Independent UK

All Marilyn Monroe movies are exploitative. But the nightmarish Blonde actually shows you inside her vagina

Andrew Dominik’s fictionalised biopic of the tragic movie star doesn’t just fail Marilyn Monroe herself, writes Amanda Whiting, but its use of a talking foetus begging not to be aborted – yes, really – sinks the film into new depths of invasiveness

The Independent UK

Marilyn Monroe fascination comes to Netflix with 'Blonde'

Marilyn Monroe has been dead for almost 60 years, but there is still a kind of madness around her that remains

The Independent UK

All Marilyn Monroe movies are exploitative. But the nightmarish Blonde actually shows you inside her vagina

Boston Herald

Movie review: ‘Blonde’ a tour de force take on Marilyn Monroe’s fabulous, tragic life

Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” is a “Phantom of the Opera” whose phantom hides her psychological scars behind the mask of a Hollywood screen goddess. Based on the 2000 novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the beautifully shot, almost three-hour film, which switches back and forth from color to black and white, presents…

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