Nina is a dedicated ballerina who is engrossed with dancing but as her fame begins to rise she faces a threat that tests her sanity.
26 November 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
October1987, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
23 November 1966, Paris, France
5 February 1948, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 January 1941, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1955, Hazlehurst, Mississippi, USA
24 July 1969, Brooklyn, New York, USA
9 June 1981, Jerusalem, Israel
March 11, 2016
Though visually beautiful and boasting superb performances from the entire cast, Black Swan, much like the ballet Nina so adores, falters because of its emphasis on melodramatic style over substance.
December 21, 2010
Portman, saddled with the near-impossible role of an impenetrable heroine we must care for without ever coming close to understanding, delivers career-high work here...
December 17, 2010
At times, Black Swan verges on laughably old school. Still, what a brazen, bold riff on the cost - physical, emotional - of art.
January 31, 2011
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.
December 10, 2010
There's a delirium that runs through Black Swan, a sense of stress and anguish and mad momentum, that's both exhilarating and terrifying.
November 03, 2013
Wonderful performances and assured and audacious direction make for one of the best films of the year. Aronofsky is never afraid to take risks with the story and his unflinching direction turns out to be one of the film's greatest assets.
October 14, 2013
Black Swan offers a perfect balance between Aronofsky's more poetic works and his down-to-earth style of The Wrestler.
November 07, 2013
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.
May 03, 2015
It's either the awesomest stupid movie or the stupidest awesome movie I've seen all year.
June 30, 2013
Director Darren Aronofsky builds an incredible atmosphere for an over-the-top story that doesn't deserve it.
January 03, 2011
Practice makes perfectly insane in Black Swan, a tale of one ballerina's psychosexual freakout.
December 10, 2010
Taken in the too-much-is-never-enough vein, "Black Swan" is a fantastic experience...
