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Jackie

2016

Pablo Larraín

Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Crudup, John Hurt ...

6.0

9,254

Drama An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 in Dallas.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Larraín makes an extraordinary English-lingo debut with this daring, many-leveled portrait of history's favorite First Lady. (...) galvanized by Natalie Portman’s complex, meticulously shaded work"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A potent cinematic provocation (...) Larrain's film - one of the year's best - is appropriately hard to pin down and impossible to forget (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Extraordinary in its piercing intimacy and lacerating in its sorrow, 'Jackie' is a remarkably raw portrait of an iconic American First Lady (...) An astonishing performance from a never-better Natalie Portman."	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"'Jackie' veers close to treating camp as high art. But in its audacious strangeness, the movie manages to do something history hardly ever gets to: surprise us"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"Natalie Portman is better than ever in Pablo Larrain’s Kennedy biopic 'Jackie' (...) A portrait of a famously tragic figure delivered without a lick of condescension or mawkishness."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The film has the requisite surface fidelity (...) But it also has moments of lightness and strangeness, as well as kinks and sour notes, which strengthen the sense that these are people, not figurines in a dutiful, paint-by-numbers biopic."	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"The film’s look recaptures the era marvelously, but the atmosphere is undermined by a script that stumbles from one improbable scene to another (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"An elegant, highly intelligent attempt to humanise a legend (...) Portman excels in her most demanding and most complex performance to date."	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"The iconic first lady is given emotional complexity and rich understanding through a stirring and ambitious performance by Natalie Portman in director Pablo Larrain’s powerful drama (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Nigel M. Smith The Guardian	"Natalie Portman astonishes in remarkably intimate portrait. Pablo Larraín’s portrait (...) doesn’t play to the standard tropes of Hollywood biopics. It’s a singular vision. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS

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