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Black Swan

2010

Darren Aronofsky

Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder ...

7.6

117,486

Drama Nina (Natalie Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"The movie is so damn out-there in every way that you can't help admiring Aronofsky for daring to be so very, very absurd"	NEU
United States	Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer	"Wild and woolly, the movie is a breathtaking head trip that hails from a long tradition of backstage melodramas: 42nd Street, A Star Is Born, All About Eve, and, yes, that kitschy '90s relic, Showgirls (...) Beautifully crazy."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A witchy brew of madness and cunning Portman's portrait of an artist under siege is unmissable and unforgettable. So is the movie. You won't know what hit you (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Lurid and voluptuous pulp fun, with a sensationalistic fairy-tale allure. You can't take it too seriously, but you can't tear your eyes away from it, either"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"This exercise in hysteria is so over the top that you don't know whether to scream or laugh. Despite an emotionally gripping performance by Natalie Portman, it's nothing more than a lavishly staged "Repulsion" in toe shoes"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Natalie Portman excels in this gripping ballet psychodrama from Darren Aronofsky (...) It is richly, sensually enjoyable (...) It is exciting, quite mad and often really scary (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Black Swan' is a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity, gloriously and darkly absurd (...) Portman's performance is a revelation (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"One of the pleasures of 'Black Swan' is its lack of reverence toward the rarefied world of ballet (...) 'Black Swan' is visceral and real even while it’s one delirious, phantasmagoric freakout."	POS
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"The film scores in the friction it creates between style and content (...) It’s fundamentally silly, but silliness with passion and conviction (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"An extraordinary, intoxicating movie. Its hard, twisted edges may turn off some, but there's no faulting either Aronofsky's technical mastery or Portman's flawless performance (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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