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  Review by k(arst)en ★★

  i don’t know how i arrived at this but i’m blaming sam levinson

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  Review by olges ★ 224

  This is a Marilyn’s personal hell: where she dies and people keep making movies, documentaries and books about the worst moments of her life over and over again for decades – and we just live in it.

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  Review by 24framesofnick ★ 38

  Thought this was gonna be about frank ocean but it was an exploitative shit fest instead

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★

  I’d always thought that Marilyn Monroe biopics would be so much better if they cruelly devoted several different scenes to her doomed CGI fetuses. starting to think I might have been wrong.

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  Review by maïa ★½ 490

  fuck hollywood, fuck the patriarchy, fuck men and mostly fuck every single person that profits of marilyn monroe’s life 

  this woman has been through absolute hell and deserves to rest in peace

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  Review by elvisthealien ★ 77

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I hated almost everything about this. It gets +1/2 a star for some cool dreamy transitions here and there; and Ana De Armas' acting was mostly good. Everything else was distasteful. A torture porn compilation of Marilyn's most horrific moments. The worst part being, it's based on a book filled with falsehoods making Marilyn's life out to be far worse than it was. Another ironic capitalization of a woman's life which was, and continues to be, endlessly exploited; and this one has a painful pro-life cherry on top. Multiple abortion scenes against her will when her real struggle was with endometriosis. There's a scene where her fetus begs for its life. It's gross using Marilyn's likeness to push a political talking point.

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  Review by tyler ★

  if you watched this movie for ana de armas, you may be entitled to financial compensation

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  Review by Edoardo Renna ★½ 19

  where’s the compassion? why do we still make a spectacle out of her suffering?

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  Review by the film drunk ★½ 8

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Glanced at my phone for a second then looked back up to see a fetus staring back at me and I had a full out of body experience

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  Review by KYK ★½ 6

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  torture porn. 

  also… [spoiler?]
  i swear to god if my unborn fetus verbally guilt trips me about my past abortion …

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★

  I see FIRE WALK WITH ME mentioned a lot next to this and yeah, I totally hear that, but feel like it's a lot closer to LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Both are depicting the psychic and symbolic landscapes of deeply, troublingly mortal people who are also fully "divine," and the cruelty they suffer at the hands of those who make demands on one or the other version of them. Only in death do they fully transcend that state of being. Marilyn's conversations with her fetus(es) remind me completely of Christ's confrontations with Satan even if the semiotics are entirely different. Is this unsubtle, even pretentious? Yes, absolutely. But it's also neither the stomach-churning litany of abuse nor the agency-robbing faux-feminist diatribe you might have been led to expect. Good movie.

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  Review by maria ½ 13

  i never thought i'd say this but.... twitter was right