A musical escape from the current maelstrom.

| Nov 4, 2021

[A] visually-stunning and emotionally-moving film... [but] The people of color in this film were used as background and not one had a speaking role.

| Feb 17, 2021

If Jackie has a conceptual emblem, this is it: messy reality splattering all over a carefully maintained façade.

| Sep 28, 2017

Pablo Larraín's disappointing Jacqueline Kennedy biopic tries but ultimately fails to reconcile the person with the persona.

| Aug 10, 2017

A movie that is as brilliant as it is frustrating.

| Original Score: B | Mar 22, 2017

[Portman is] at her best here in the moments when Jackie is quiet, when the grief, anger and doubt are in her face more than in her words.

| Jan 30, 2017

From the saddening glissando strings of the opening theme, with its falling invocations of death and discord, Levi provides the unifying emotional glue for Larraín's deliberately shattered film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2017

Clever, beautiful images about a clever, beautiful image-maker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2017

[Jackie Kennedy] is played to perfection by Natalie Portman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2017

Was I riveted by Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy? I was... But was I aware it was Natalie Portman, Acting? Always. And there isn't much else here.

| Jan 19, 2017

For all the bustle around her, the film insists on Jackie's aloneness and Portman gives a performance in which there is as much tantalisingly concealed as fearlessly exposed.

| Jan 19, 2017

It is well made, handsomely furnished, punctiliously designed and the use of Richard Burton's sonorous tones on the Kennedys' LP of the musical Camelot is a nice moment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2017

There is kitsch but no corn in this piercingly intelligent film. Even the press-interview framing device, a tired trope in some cinema, proves its sly mettle.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 19, 2017

It's the incongruity of the Jackie Kennedy story told in Pablo Larrain's Jackie that makes the film so compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2017

Larraín has made an incomparable film on the process of moving queasily into uncertainty.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 18, 2017

Jackie does what the very best biopics should: it makes you view someone you've seen countless times as if you were seeing them anew.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2017

Natalie Portman's performance is as good as everyone says.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2017

This is a cinema of no escape, and few if any actors will have to shoulder the same burden of expressive responsibility this year - yet the never-better Portman simply shines beneath it, giving a performance of mesmeric complexity and commitment.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 11, 2017

Larrain has carried off a perfect fusion of the personal and the political. The story of one woman's loss has become a study in America's sustaining need to turn its leaders into myth.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 11, 2017

Pablo Larrain has crafted a visually stunning and emotionally raw film but what really brings Jackie to life is Natalie Portman's extraordinarily complex performance.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 10, 2017