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

| Aug 31, 2021

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

| Jun 8, 2021

This is part horror, part thriller, part Freudian nightmare and not a pretty film, as I said, nor an easy watch, but it's so unexpected and out there and passionate it keeps you with it and involved all the way.

| Aug 30, 2018

Director Darren Aronofsky's darkly enthralling entertainment makes the perfect antidote to too many sugary holiday Nutcrackers.

| Feb 7, 2018

By the end, Nina's quest for perfection-and Portman's blazing performance-will leave you breathless.

| Oct 4, 2017

Audiences won't know who to trust and what is real in this terrifyingly great film that will grab hold of you until the final act.

| Original Score: A | Sep 9, 2017

For all his command of adrenalized, propulsive narrative and his dazzling technical facility, Aronofsky's study in female hysteria ultimately favors frenzy over compassion or insight-and remains strictly skin-deep.

| Nov 7, 2013

Portman hasn't been this good since her early performances in The Professional and Heat, and is deservedly attracting intense Oscar buzz. Kunis brings to Lily a savvy sexiness, and Cassel is entertainingly smarmy.

| Jan 31, 2011

An exercise in the higher kitsch, a slick, pretentious film in which the polished surface is a distorting mirror.

| Jan 26, 2011

It is compelling viewing, aided enormously by Portman's extraordinarily subtle and emotionally authentic performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2011

A ballet melodrama in which it isn't just the body that is threatened with disintegration, but the mind too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2011

Full of sex, drugs, catfights, violence, hallucinations and even some choice girl-on-girl action. What more could you possibly want from a ballet movie?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2011

Fantastically deranged at all times, Darren Aronofsky's ballet psycho-melodrama is a glittering, crackling, outrageously pickable scab of a film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2011

The film is lurid, melodramatic, over-the-top - and currently a hot awards favourite. Aronofsky must have hypnotic powers over jurors and voters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 20, 2011

With repeat viewings, the thematic subtext slips into focus and the performances take on a new significance. It's not vintage Aronofsky, but it's still a tour de force.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2011

A bona fide, trumpet-it-from-the-chimney-pots masterpiece that ALSO happens to be a terrific psychological thriller AND features Meg from Family Guy copping off with Queen Amidala.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 17, 2011

Practice makes perfectly insane in Black Swan, a tale of one ballerina's psychosexual freakout.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 3, 2011

Aronofsky lets us thrill in the in the act of creation without ever letting us forget the terrible sacrifices many artists make to entertain us.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Dec 21, 2010

Easily one of the most emotionally impactful films of the year and is something that will certainly haunt you long after the credits roll in the best possible way.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 18, 2010