Actress Emily Ratajkowski, has put the film on blast for “fetishizing female pain”. Speaking on TikTok,

I’m not surprised to hear that it’s yet another movie fetishizing female pain, even in death.”
We love to fetishize female pain … We obsess over dead girls and serial killers.”
She added:
We love to fetishise female pain. And I think as women, I can say for myself for sure, I’ve learned how to fetishise my own pain and my own hurt in my life so that it feels like something that can be tended to that’s kind of sexy.”
I think we do that in many, many different ways.
I want that to change. But I was thinking about it and you know what’s kind of hard to fetishize? Anger. Anger is hard to fetishise. So I have a proposal. I think we all need to be a little more p***** off. I’m gonna be in my witch era, 2022
EMILY
The film has also been criticized for among other things, anti-abortion propaganda.
As film and TV shapes many people’s understanding of sexual and reproductive health, it’s critical these depictions accurately portray women’s real decisions and experiences,
It is a shame that the creators of Blonde [the film’s title] chose to contribute to anti-abortion propaganda and stigmatize people’s health care decisions instead.”
says Caren Spruch of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
Some viewers describe the film as “utterly disgusting”.
One viewer Tweeted: “Blonde has to be one of the worst fucking disgusting movies I’ve ever seen, I’m literally disgusted after watching it, Marilyn deserves better.”