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  • Black Swan
  • Opened December 3, 2010 (Limited 12/3) | Runtime:1 hr 48 min
  • R
    Strong sexual content, disturbing violent images, language and some drug use
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. Read More
  • Nina (Natalie Portman) is a ballerina whose passion for the dance rules every facet of her life. When the company's artistic director decides to replace his prima ballerina for their opening production of ''Swan Lake,'' Nina is his first choice. She Read More
  • Cast: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, Benjamin Millepied
  • Director: Darren Aronofsky
  • Genres: Suspense/Thriller

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Black Swan Recent Fan Reviews

  • So-so

    To Lela Grant and all of us

    by birac

    Yes,Natalie Portman gave more than 100 % to this role,which is why I say so-so,rather than NO. Why would I even think about saying NO? Because as LG stated, unnecessarily explicit sexual garbage on screen. AND WE ARE LETTING MEDIA DUMB US DOWN TO IT.Too much emphasis in this film. We realize that coming into this aspect of Nina's personality was a key to owning the Black Swan role without the filming of masturbation and girl on girl oral sex being thrown in the faces of the general public. Again, you may hit that no button for 'was this helpful?'-but I refuse to not address the fact that we can comprehend an intriguing thriller without having pornography,again,being fed to us. Most are uncomfortable,but don't admit it. It is harmful to people trying to keep some morality in their lives. This was a very good film otherwise,I wont say the movie was ruined...but WHY does no one admit the problem here????

  • Oh No!

    How to destroy a ballet based thriller: first hire Darren Aronofsky, then cast non-dancers

    The basic story of the artist so wrapped up in her role she loses herself with tragic consequences is perfectly valid - Carlos Saura did it with a flamenco CARMEN in a 1983 Spanish film brilliantly. With competent writing and direction, it could make a *thrilling* film, but under Aronofsky's self indulgent, close ups (to hide his non-dancing leads), the screenplay by three separate hands lacks any revelations. Is the choreographer a monster trying to seduce the virginal Portman or merely trying to get a performance out of her? Is Portman being drugged by an ambitious rival in the corps de ballet or perhaps her own jealous mother or is she merely having a breakdown pressured from her big break and her quest for "perfection"? The director thinks we're shallow enough to confuse obscurity with sophistication or surrealism. Worst of all the final "coup de theatre" belies the "triumph" preceding it. This is merely beauty-free, failed Grand Guignol semi-leavened with inexcusable pornography.

  • Oh No!

    PORN

    Black Swan is porn. Don't expect to be entertained. Natalie P. as the premier ballerina, masturbates in the presence of her mother, she then has a full on close up focus girl going down on her scene, that belongs in the XXX genre. Don't go.

Black Swan Critic Reviews

Go Avg. Critic Score 79 out of 100 Metascore ® based on all critic ratings.

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Wild and woolly, the movie is a breathtaking head trip that hails from a long...

  • 100
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    To induce a state of dread and mesmerize with beauty is a rare, paradoxical...

  • 100
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Black Swan is visceral and real even while it's one delirious, phantasmagoric...

  • 90
    Variety |

    A wicked, sexy and ultimately devastating study of a young dancer's...

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