My Week with Marilyn 3.0 stars

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A gossipy peekaboo based on Colin Clark’s memoir as an assistant on the English set of 1957’s The Prince and the Showgirl. He has a crush on Marilyn Monroe, who reciprocates voluptuously (this may be mostly imagined), while costar and director Laurence Olivier fumes. Eddie Redmayne is appealing as coltish Colin, and Kenneth Branagh impersonates Olivier rather well. But Simon Curtis’s slight, engaging movie belongs to Michelle Williams. As Marilyn Monroe, her face looks more like Leslie Caron or Brenda De Banzie, but she mixes the famous sizzle with catty, canny vulnerability as a natural star who doesn’t believe in her talent but can manipulate males. She rescues Marilyn from her image as a controlled dummy. Monroe never found completion, but Williams creatively does. With Zoë Wanamaker as Paula Strasberg, as cuddly as a blowtorch. 2011.

— By David Elliott

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Mindy1114 Jan. 26, 4:57 p.m.

My Week with Marilyn

From what I've seen in the ads, Michelle Williams just doesn't pull off this role for me. She isn't particularly sultry and sexy enough, and I strictly get a sense that she is acting. Now a young Lisa Marie Presley would have been hot in the role. In my opinion, she has that "something extra" to pull off such a role. I saw her dressed up as the late actress in a book a few years ago, and she blew my socks off. She was so realistic, I couldn't believe it. But Michelle Williams, no thanks. I'll save my dollars for a movie I can believe.

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