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Article: Pathetic 'Monster'; Story of dead-end lives evokes no sympathy.(SHOW)(MOVIES)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 9, 2004
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Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"Monster," a biographical shocker and tear-jerker about the late Aileen Wuornos, a Florida hooker executed for a murder spree, has nowhere to go but down and settles there with a luridly stagnating vengeance. However, it's also cleverly timed to make an under-the-wire Academy Award contender of Charlize Theron, who avidly welcomes the opportunity to conceal her beauty behind a deglamorized and sometimes ferocious facade.
A two-character fable of ignorance and desperation, "Monster" concentrates on the failed romance between its dead-end protagonist and a smitten but also treacherously dependent young woman named ...