7/10
This is a pretty good movie boasting another great performance from Michelle Williams - that her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe never descends into cartoonishness (despite Monroe's cartoonish personality) and constantly treads a very nuanced line between sexy and childish, cleverness and borderline outright stupidity, is a testament to both Williams' abilities and the screenplay. I suppose if I had one major complaint, it's that there just isn't a lot here - it's a pretty fluff movie, and when you start to wonder how such a thin story got made into a major motion picture, it's not hard to imagine someone pitching this as pure Oscar-bait for the Monroe role alone. Luckily they were able to create a sufficiently entertaining movie around it, however.
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