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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

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Emily Ratajkowski accuses Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde of ‘fetishising female pain’

‘We obsess over dead girls and serial killers,’ she told her fans on TikTok

The Independent UK

If Blonde is a feminist film, why is Marilyn Monroe still being exploited?

The movie, and TV shows like it, merely add women’s mental and physical suffering to the misogynist mix

The Guardian - UK

Kim Kardashian wears heeled Crocs in boldest fashion statement yet

Kim Kardashian is often known for setting fashion trends but it's unknown if this one will catch on

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

Savage reviews for Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde as fans 'turn off after 20 minutes'

Blonde - which is a reimagining of Marilyn Monroe's life - was released by Netflix earlier this week and although there's been praise for star Ana De Armas, the film itself has attracted criticism

Daily Mirror

Adrien Brody says Blonde is supposed to be a ‘traumatic experience’: ‘It’s fearless filmmaking’

‘It’s brave and it takes a while to digest,’ actor who plays Arthur Miller in the film said

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

Netflix’s Blonde is so ‘repulsive’ viewers feel ‘ashamed’ to watch it

The controversial Marilyn Monroe biopic dropped on Wednesday and has been met with heavily mixed reactions

Liverpool Echo

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: ‘Disgusted’ Netflix viewers turn off ‘unwatchable’ Marilyn Monroe drama after just 20 minutes

One viewer described it as ‘a hate letter to the icon that was Marilyn’

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Salon

"Blonde": Marilyn Monroe deserves better

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

ABC News

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…

Los Angeles Times

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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France 24

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…

Daily Mirror

Is the Marilyn Monroe Netflix epic Blonde based on true events?

Netflix film Blonde sees Ana de Armas become the latest actor to play the original Hollywood bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, in an epic that nearly hits the three-hour mark

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 Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson is television at its most triggering

Michael Winterbottom’s pandemic drama is sickeningly accurate. Plus: risky business for Catherine in the season finale of The Great. Here’s what to watch this evening

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

The Independent UK

Recreating Marilyn Monroe’s iconic outfits in ‘Blonde’

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

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