Darren Aronofsky's beautiful, haunting tale of obsession takes a look at the lengths some will go to achieve perfection. What luck that Portman has achieved just that in her performance.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 11, 2025

“Black Swan” stands as proof that films have been elevating horror to the level of art for decades, and when they get it right, the results are exhilarating.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 8, 2024

Throughout, we can spot thematic threads from Aronofsky's body of emotionally raw, character-based studies of obsession and tragedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

The film's slow-boiling pull on you, the audience, builds more and more with a pace and tension that matches the maddening breakdowns of its lead character.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 16, 2024

Its psychological dialectic is as terrifying as it is paranoid with Portman's formidable performance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 15, 2024

Black Swan warrants a profound response both from its stark melodramatic turns and from the sheer authority behind its artistic ambitions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2023

Aronofsky [is] a master filmmaker...

| Apr 26, 2023

A high-pitched affair that sometimes risks silliness and sometimes achieves it. The risk is important — the movie is nothing if not impassioned — but overall the film is too rigidly schematic to be truly wild.

| Original Score: C | Oct 4, 2022

Natalie Portman, with almost supernatural fragility often saves this hyper melodrama. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 15, 2022

'Red Shoes' meets 'Repulsion' in Darren Aronofsky’s... jittery psychological portrait of neurosis and obsession in a meek, repressed young woman who still has little girl prima ballerina dreams.

| Jul 5, 2022

What were they trying to say? What happened?... You're all pretending you know what it means.

| Aug 31, 2021

Aronofsky wants you to feel that heroin oozing into your vein, he wants you to feel that barbed wire and glass burrowing under your tights, and here he wants you go right off the deep end with a girl in a tutu

| Original Score: A | Jul 2, 2021

Black Swan is a top-form thriller-visceral, moving, and stunningly beautiful-but it's also a film about the darkness our own minds conjure up when we're overwhelmed by ambition.

| Jun 24, 2021

The impeccable casting adds an elevated element of reality to a film that already hits so close to home.

| Jun 8, 2021

While there are few films that with look and sound as good as this as 2011 plays out, there'll will be even less that will be so misunderstood. Black Swan is a hoot. A silly, melodramatic hoot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2021

Black Swan is way over the top (not that his films were ever subtle) in saint/whore dichotomy with bombastic Swan Lake score. But it fits with visceral visuals creating internal chaos in the character.

| Mar 21, 2021

Director Darren Aronofsky has done an excellent service by showing how art has reached the extreme of a downward demonic trend. Now that we've reached that extreme, perhaps, like the yin-yang symbol, things will turn around.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2021

It isn't understated, it isn't strictly a horror film, nor is it just a ballet film. It is a wild, primal melodrama that resonates because of the fearless and unapologetically strange work of its star and director.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

The overuse of handheld cameras gives a heightened sense of voyeurism and immediacy, but it also exudes an unpolished feel.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 29, 2020

It surprises me how many people question whether or not Black Swan is a horror film because it undeniably is - it's psychological horror at its best.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Oct 30, 2020