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Alynda Wheat, People: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Aronofsky brilliantly lets 'Black Swan' hover between thriller and camp, tossing in garish flourishes more commonly seen in horror films, but keeping the action tautly restrained." (Read the full review...) 160 words, 12/02/10 Richard Corliss, Time: VERY GOOD "...a real woman's movie, not one of those strenuous heart-warmers about female companionship and compromise.... a guy's idea of a woman's sexuality." (Read the full review...) 1,586 words, 09/04/10 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...at once gorgeous and gloriously nutso... if you're willing to go along with it, you'll find yourself wowed by one of the best films of the year." (Read the full review...) 702 words, 12/02/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "2010's most powerful and provocative movie." (Read the full review...) 213 words, 12/02/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: EXCELLENT (cg) "You can't take it too seriously, but you can't tear your eyes away from it, either.... more shocking than ravishing." (Read the full review...) 748 words, 12/03/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a hotblooded, head-spinning erotic thriller... Portman's portrait of an artist under siege is unmissable and unforgettable." (Read the full review...) 411 words, 11/26/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: OUTSTANDING (cg) "To induce a state of dread and mesmerize with beauty is a rare, paradoxical achievement." (Read the full review...) 484 words, 12/03/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity, gloriously and darkly absurd.... a grand exhilaration of towering passion." (Read the full review...) 966 words, 12/02/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a twisted piece of art - the kind of things that lovers of the 'mind fuck' subgenre will delight in." (Read the full review...) 1,129 words, 12/01/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...what gives it a jolt is its giddy, sometimes sleazy exploitation-cinema savvy.... it is visceral and real even while it's one delirious, phantasmagoric freakout." (Read the full review...) 1,372 words, 12/03/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...neither aims for nor achieves the heartbreaking humanity of 'The Wrestler,' but its Freudian anxieties are bound to haunt your dreams." (Read the full review...) 373 words, 12/03/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...my favorite film of the year." (Read the full review...) 579 words, 12/03/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...risks absurdity in nearly every scene... It is extremely high-grade hokum... Aronofsky's most interesting film to date..." (Read the full review...) 694 words, 12/03/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...thoroughly bizarre, pitched at high C and, as you might expect from a movie about a crazy person in a tutu, frequently hilarious." (Read the full review...) 321 words, 12/13/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: WEAK "...crushingly obvious from its first frame to its exultant final whiteout.... no doubt about it, a tour de force, a work that fully lives up to its director's ambitions." (Read the full review...) 692 words, 11/29/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity, gloriously and darkly absurd.... a grand exhilaration of towering passion." (Read the full review...) 966 words, 12/02/10 J. Hoberman, Village Voice: WEAK "...a minor classic of heterosexual camp -- at the very least, it's the most risible and riotous backstage movie since 'Showgirls'.... a hoot... Kitsch this bombastic becomes something primal." (Read the full review...) 637 words, 12/01/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Portman's performance is the reason why you must see 'Black Swan.' She's on fire, consuming everything around her." (Read the full review...) 709 words, 12/03/10 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...so brazenly audacious, it's sometimes risible and yet, for the same reason, is always compelling, impossible not to watch with fascination, whether avid or appalled." (Read the full review...) 967 words, 12/03/10 Karina Longworth, LA Weekly: WEAK "...self-conscious homage to epic backstage soaps and visceral body-dysmorphia horror... Call it balletsploitation... a work of art only in that it's pitch-perfect trash." (Read the full review...) 144 words, 11/04/10 Josep Parera, La Opinion: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...demuestra que el cine de Darren Aronofsk no puede dejar indiferente. Y eso es siempre una ventaja." (Read the full review...) 387 words, 12/03/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a rich, weird experience... a showcase around Portman's tremendous range." (Read the full review...) 192 words, 12/02/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Natalie Portman delivers a bravura performance and Mila Kunis provides incandescent ballast to Portman's delicately tortured waif." (Read the full review...) 513 words, 12/03/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a breathtaking head trip that hails from a long tradition of backstage melodramas... Thrilling, indeed. And brazenly, beautifully crazy." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 12/10/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "For all its ham-fistedness, it captures something about the tyranny of the ballet world and, by extension, the neurotic imprisonment of female body image." (Read the full review...) 731 words, 12/10/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a movie for all seasons, a film that is all things to all people... Artful, epic, operatic even... challenges the viewer with its intelligence and depth and wit." (Read the full review...) 657 words, 12/17/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a terrific, profoundly disturbing tapestry of suspense and madness." (Read the full review...) 233 words, 12/10/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Either you embrace its headlong descent into madness brought on by the pressures of artistic perfection, compounded by smothering anxiety, or you reject it. It's that simple." (Read the full review...) 595 words, 12/09/10 Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...reaches a fever pitch of frenzy and sends us hurtling toward the finish.... leaves you dizzy and appreciative of film's power to shake up the senses." (Read the full review...) 621 words, 12/03/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...perched on the edge of madness. If there's a problem, it's that it doesn't fully succumb.... Still, that restraint might have actually revealed a new range in Portman." (Read the full review...) 1,131 words, 12/03/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a study in ambition and psychology.... In a beautiful performance Portman is graceful, quiet, sweet and confused." (Read the full review...) 414 words, 12/17/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a ballet movie so majestically lurid it almost creates its own genre; a backstage melodrama set in a dark hall of mirrors.... just try to look away as the plot thickens and curdles." (Read the full review...) 492 words, 12/10/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Whether your tastes are delicate or coarse, whether you prefer the ballet or horror movies, there is plenty in the film for you..." (Read the full review...) 867 words, 12/10/10 Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...ridiculously over the top, but in a way that makes it fascinating to watch." (Read the full review...) 298 words, 12/10/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...keeps fascinating, irregular rhythm with Aronofsky's shock touches... it is erratic like its anti-heroine, and that's daring change..." (Read the full review...) 608 words, 12/16/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...isn't for everyone -- it is a ballet horror movie, after all. But there's an ecstatic tension here that's undeniable and beyond words." (Read the full review...) 550 words, 12/10/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Aronofsky takes some huge artistic risks here, with Portman at his side, and they pay off with haunting, unnerving effect. Elegant, perverse and frightening..." (Read the full review...) 672 words, 12/17/10
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: WEAK "...a minor classic of heterosexual camp -- at the very least, it's the most risible and riotous backstage movie since 'Showgirls'.... a hoot... Kitsch this bombastic becomes something primal." (Read the full review...) 637 words, 12/01/10 Josh Tyler, Cinema Blend: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...restrained, for the most part letting the film's haunting performance from Portman speak for itself, resorting to visual trickery only in careful measure." (Read the full review...) 713 words, 12/01/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...like nothing you've ever seen before.... almost a perfect ballet in itself: sublime, excessive, and verging on the absurd." (Read the full review...) 606 words, 12/02/10 Karina Longworth, LA Weekly: WEAK "...self-conscious homage to epic backstage soaps and visceral body-dysmorphia horror... Call it balletsploitation... a work of art only in that it's pitch-perfect trash." (Read the full review...) 144 words, 11/04/10 Keith Phipps, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a florid, often lurid, completely enthralling film held in place by a disarming Portman, who rarely leaves the frame." (Read the full review...) 379 words, 12/02/10 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...the overall effect is ostentatiously calculated, ill-fitting, and emotionally aloof, always for our benefit and almost never symptomatic of its protagonist's living nightmare." (Read the full review...) 1,176 words, 11/23/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a rich, weird experience... a showcase around Portman's tremendous range." (Read the full review...) 192 words, 12/02/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "Watching a talented filmmaker unleash his ardor for cinema can be an operatic, intoxicating spectacle... With this, however, a one-track mind fails to take us very far." (Read the full review...) 930 words, 12/09/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...sophisticated... elegant... absurdly campy and intensely bleak... one of the most challenging and most memorable characters I've seen at the movies in ages..." (Read the full review...) 884 words, 02/07/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: MODERATE "...a gothic horror show that is fascinating and disappointing in equal measure.... the creep-show component isn't worthy of the theme." (Read the full review...) 616 words, 12/03/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...what gives it a jolt is its giddy, sometimes sleazy exploitation-cinema savvy.... it is visceral and real even while it's one delirious, phantasmagoric freakout." (Read the full review...) 1,372 words, 12/03/10 David Denby, New Yorker: POOR "Aronofsky, for all his gifts, is a gaudy maestro, opportunistic and insecure as an artist... a pompous, self-glorifying, and generally unpleasant interpretation of an artist's task." (Read the full review...) 1,158 words, 11/29/10 David Edelstein, NPR Fresh Air: POOR "You could have a great time laughing at it and it's goofy Freudian cliches, if only it weren't so bludgeoning.... no more complex or enlivening than a cheap hack-'em-up director's vision..." (Listen to the full review...) 381 seconds, 12/03/10 Dana Stevens, Slate: FAIR "...combines some truly stunning visual and cinematic ideas with some truly terrible, well, ideas.... this emotionally inert movie never does grow wings." (Read the full review...) 947 words, 12/02/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "...gorgeous, erotic, outlandish... overpowering from the first few frames of the film.... I was completely swept up and just wanted to ride along on Aronofsky's hallucinatory journey..." (Read the full review...) 1,007 words, 09/10/10
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: OUTSTANDING "A wicked, sexy and ultimately devastating study of a young dancer's all-consuming ambition... a fascinating complement to Aronofsky's 'The Wrestler'..." (Read the full review...) 1,032 words, 09/01/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: MODERATE "Trying to coax a horror-thriller out of the world of ballet doesn't begin to work... so damn out-there in every way that you can't help admiring Aronofsky for daring to be so very, very absurd." (Read the full review...) 962 words, 09/01/10 Paulo Riviero, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...another fascinating and unsettling character study set inside an eccentric and competitive social-professional milieu... features an Oscar-caliber turn by Natalia Portman." (Read the full review...) 992 words, 09/13/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...what gives it a jolt is its giddy, sometimes sleazy exploitation-cinema savvy.... it is visceral and real even while it's one delirious, phantasmagoric freakout." (Read the full review...) 1,372 words, 12/03/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: MODERATE "...a gothic horror show that is fascinating and disappointing in equal measure.... the creep-show component isn't worthy of the theme." (Read the full review...) 616 words, 12/03/10
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