"Smile" took control of the box-office weekend as it debuted in first place by $14.7 million, pushing last weekend's top film to a distant second place.

Apart from a better-than-this film deserves performance from Ana de Armas, there is little to recommend the chaotic behemoth of a story that is "Blonde."

While it may not be the epitome of the genre, "Smile" is one of those films that portends of even better things to come from the artist responsible for it.