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  Review by single white femalien ★★★ 19

  the rape scene in this is a good example of the way rape scenes should be handled. its not titillating or sexy for men. it's scary and awful and painful to watch, not b/c it's grotesquely fetishistic & there to remind you that the filmmaker doesn't see you, a woman, as a person worth making movies for but b/c it's a horrific violent assault being enacted on a woman. i don't know if that's necessary still but if rape has to be in a movie i'd rather watch a version that doesn't shit on my personhood & doesn't frame a brutal life-changing assault as something sexy hot for male viewers.

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  Review by ivy wolk ★★★★ 2

  no cuz movies about women going to prison always make me so irrationally sad like free all my bitches fr

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  Review by Joan ★★★½ 6

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

  don't call yourself a feminist if you don't support lesbian serial killers that kill their rapists 🗣🗣🗣

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  Review by john ★★★★

  This is like the Floridian version of "Portrait of a Lady on Fire"

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 12

  She killed in self-defense. To call her a serial killer is to put her among misogynists, pedophiles, and torturers who preyed on women like her. The sensationalization of Wuornos's story is centered so much on a misogynist, anti-sex worker view that it's almost impossible to find anything about her that isn't biased and twisted and framed to make her out as especially heinous. A woman "serial killer" helps them bury the fact that the vast majority of serial killers get away with their killing for so long because they target women, sex workers, and others the capitalist state doesn't care about. (Yes, there are women who are serial killers, but the way the capitalist media used Wuornos's story was intentional…

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  Review by Luke Kane ★★★★½ 5

  You sabotaged my ass, society!

  Monster rests comfortably on an achingly truthful performance.

  The film itself has stock-standard TV sensibilities. The physical horrors of murder are modestly implied; the camera angles are arranged so that we don't ever see what is actually happening. That being said, the performances are so good that you might be misled into believing you've seen more than you actually have. Theron's guttural screams are so precise, the levels of her rage so permeable, that we feel the agony of a beating without being graphically assaulted by it. It's the kind of performance that defines a career and becomes the benchmark upon which we judge every other performance from that artist. It's so good - so…

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  Review by •°▪︎James▪︎°• ★★★½ 1

  Okay but who put a queer romcom into the middle of a serial killer biopic?

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  Review by ksenija ★★★ 1

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

  charlize theron and christina ricci making out to don't stop believing while roller skating > the godfather

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  Review by Peaceful Stoner ★★★★ 2

  Charlize Theron should have got two Oscars for this. An utterly blood chilling performance. I sometimes forgot that it was Theron on screen. Such was her transformation into character of Aileen Wuornos. Honestly according to me this must be one of the best female lead performance ever on cinema. Truly unbelievable.

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  Review by Lucy ★★★ 1

  carol (2015) dir. todd haynes who???

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  Review by Marian ★★★★ 1

  charlize theron is first of all ageless and secondly we don't deserve her

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  Review by J E S S 🌈 V. K ★★★★

  Wow, it really pisses me off that I have perceived Charlize Theron's oscar win as how the mainstream media represented it; ugly woman make-up. It pisses me off because I literally wrote off this movie for over a decade because of it...

  She deserved every single piece of that gold man statue as this is a masterclass in acting. She becomes Aileen in every sense of the word, not just in make-up. Ricci is a fantastic supporter here with their wide eyed naive simpleton-ness as she follows along with this woman. Love can do strange things and that includes believing a skewed perspective on murder.

  Jenkins approach to this true story is commendable. She never paints her protagonist as evil…