Michelle Williams is astonishingly good as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn. It's a great shame the film itself can't equal the brilliance of Williams' performance.
- CJ Johnson, ABC Radio (Australia), February 27, 2012
Williams captures the vulnerability, allure and transcendent appeal of Monroe perfectly.
- Thomas Caldwell, Cinema Autopsy, February 19, 2012
Made with sublime sensitivity - not to be mistaken for weakness - My Week With Marilyn is a shimmering, memorable, magnificent movie
- Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile, February 16, 2012
Like Chanel No 5, whose fragrance with which she is identified, the bewitching allure of Marilyn Monroe wafts throughout this gem of a film, allowing us an intimate insight into her fragility, loneliness and insecurity
- Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile, February 16, 2012
That's all familiar lore but, to his credit, director Simon Curtis lays out these separate ambitions and conflicting tensions with breezy dispatch in the early frames.
- Rick Groen, Globe and Mail, December 02, 2011
'My Week with Marilyn': Minor film with major marketing campaign
- Joe Baltake, Passionate Moviegoer, November 30, 2011
Perfectly innocuous and at times somewhat touching, My Week With Marilyn never insults your intelligence, even if it doesn't exactly stretch it.
- , Film4, November 29, 2011
A dubious idea done in by Adrian Hodges's shallow script and Simon Curtis's clumsy direction.
- Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal, November 26, 2011
Williams, lambent as ever, ably conveys the tension between Monroe's eyelid-fluttering public persona and the damaged woman behind it.
- Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph, November 25, 2011
Curtis occasionally takes his characters out of Pinewood, but they're never really set free, either in physical or emotional terms.
- Peter Howell, Toronto Star, November 25, 2011
We have here possibly the thespiest film of all time.
- David Sexton, This is London, November 25, 2011
My Week With Marilyn is light fare: it doesn't pretend to offer any great insight, but it offers a great deal of pleasure and fun...
- Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK], November 24, 2011
Michelle Williams plays Monroe, and she's a wonder.
- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly, November 24, 2011
It's too bad that Williams didn't have a script or director that would have given the film a better chance of attaining greatness.
- James Rocchi, MSN Movies, November 23, 2011
[Williams] captures not only Monroe's fragility but also the guile and gumption beneath it. What she can't capture, of course, is Monroe's aura, and without it, the performance comes across as something more than mimicry but less than incandescence.
- Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, November 23, 2011
- , Urban Cinefile, June 20, 2012
[Williams] floats through the movie, perfectly capturing Monroe's way of rhythmically whispering through a song, looking softly frightened when uncertain, and not strolling so much as delicately oozing across the floor.
- Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times, November 25, 2011
A little too hopped up on biopic cliches to say anything particularly interesting or even coherent.
- Charlie Lyne, Ultra Culture, November 29, 2011
Williams's portrait of dippy pulchritude and to Branagh's spectacularly funny Olivier.
- Nigel Andrews, Financial Times, November 25, 2011
Williams' impersonation is up to scratch, and adoring her isn't too hard. She captures the lilting voice and eagerness to please, and her heart-shaped face makes for a likeness that's sometimes uncanny.
- Jessica Holland, Little White Lies, November 24, 2011
