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Black Swan

Overview


Genre :

Thriller, Supernatural

Release Date :

December 03, 2010 (Wide)

MPAA Rating :

R

Director :

Darren Aronofsky

Starring :

Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Sebastian Stan, Barbara Hershey, Kristina Anapau

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Go! Watch this movie. You'll regret if not seeing it.    Readers  4 of 5 [Rate It]

4 of 4

“..wild and woolly..”
by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]
“..visceral and real even while it's one delirious, phantasmagoric freakout..”
by Manohla Dargis [NY Times]
3.5 of 4

“..seems so real..”
by Peter Howell [Toronto Star]
4 of 4

“..paradoxical achievement..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
3 of 5

“..much as it has an idea beyond the presentation of sensation..”
by Kenneth Turan [LA Times]
Review rate : B+

“..lurid and voluptuous pulp fun, with a sensationalistic fairy-tale allure..”
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
“..it's outlandish and melodramatic and spectacular..”
by Andrew O'Hehir [Salon]
“..it's excessive and psychologically imprecise, coarse where it should be refined..”
by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle]
4 of 5

“..exposes the destructive obsession that sparks breathtaking beauty..”
by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News]
4.5 of 5

“..comes off as intoxicatingly fresh, fearless, exhilarating, and exhausting..”
by Sean O'Connell [Filmcritic.com]
3 of 4

“..beautiful dark twisted fantasy..”
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]
4 of 5

“..anything less than thrilling to watch..”
by Pete Hammond [Boxoffice Magazine]
“..an unsettling yet ultimately intuitive blend of classical and contempo techniques..”
by Peter Debruge [Variety]
“..all about penetration, blood, and psychosis..”
by J. Hoberman [Village Voice]
3.5 of 4

“..a twisted piece of art - the kind of things that lovers of the "mind fuck" subgenre will delight in..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]
3 of 4

“.."stripped-down," "visceral," and "real"..”
by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe]

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