Blond - Avis

Frankly, what he and Armas do for Blonde is the equivalent of what great crime directors achieve — forcing you to watch horrifying images and situations without being able to turn away from them...

...engaging, unbridled cinema that will prompt discourse and divide opinions.

Ana de Armas’ performance is powerful...

Perhaps we are meant to feel as disoriented and drained as this fictionalized Marilyn, who asks where dreams end and madness begins?

...a glossily expensive nightmare about the great movie actor as bleating sacrificial sex-lamb on the altar of celebrity.

This is a portrait of Monroe that accentuates her suffering and anguish, canonising her into a feminist saint who died for our scopophilic sins, that we might feast on her beauty and talent.

...when de Armas’ performance is given the space to be quiet and chilling, Blonde suddenly hits, and what once felt hollow feels painfully visceral.

The movie is both a daring and empathetic deconstruction of Monroe iconography anchored by a beautiful performance from de Armas, as well as a miserabilist wallow in exploitation.

...a hellish vision of Marilyn and her monsters.