Gorgeous cinematography and color grading, and creative use of aspect ratio changes; inspired score; and phenomenal acting (especially of note is the child playing young Norma Jean-- both she and the mother were frighteningly convincing.)

This film is much more a mythologized psychological head trip art house drama than biopic, so if you're confused by what I just said, you're probably too simple to appreciate any of the aforementioned, so you can leave your low ratings somewhere else that deserves it... like most of the rest of Netflix's catalogue. I can't imagine the film being any shorter, especially given how it already uses its time skips-- always from Norma's perspective. That was the one consistent thread throughout the film. You experience everything from her disturbed perspective. Whenever Ana turns directly to the camera, it's Norma _watching_ Marilyn act. The dialog can be a little hokey at times, but that's my only real gripe from a cinematic standpoint.

However, if you're an avid fan of Marilyn and know her true story well, then this will probably make you mad. I knew just enough getting into this that everything seemed plausible (I knew the deal with Di Maggio, and with Arthur Miller), but mainly I appreciated it for the experience that it was. But I can certainly understand what people might have against it on those grounds.

And a note about the nudity: I didn't find any of it to be titillating, or exploitive. Yes, Ana de Armas is gorgeous, and normally I'd be lusting after her onscreen form, but Norma Jean's story was too tragic, and I felt too much for the character and what she was going through. A large theme in the film (though not spelled out explicitly, for those who've never thought about or are naïve to the cultural context) is that of the hypocritical puritanical obsession with sex, and how Abrahamics/Christians/Westerners/Americans demonize women for having sexuality, while simultaneously commoditizing, marketing, and lusting after them. The irony is that she's hypersexualized as Marylin, while _clothed_, but the scenes with nudity are Norma's lived experiences, and are anything but.