Black Swan is a character study exploring the "tortured artist" trope through the descent into madness of ballet dancer Nina Sayers. The film's open-ended finale leaves viewers with multiple ...

Black Swan A wicked, sexy and ultimately devastating study of a young dancer's all-consuming ambition. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV Plus Icon What To Watch Plus Icon Music Plus Icon Docs ...

There's something demented about Black Swan and not in a good way. It's excessive and psychologically imprecise, coarse where it should be refined and too much like a David Cronenberg horror movie ...

When Nina begins to dance, you can see the stiffness and frigidity her character emanates, and when Leroy demands that she show her passion as the Black Swan, you can see where Nina fails.

Nina must dance the part of the White Swan, a vision of purity, and also that of the Black Swan, her sensuous double. When Nina's own Black Swan, a dark beauty named Lily (Mila Kunis), joins the ...

From its first woozy, tightrope step, “Black Swan” is thrown into an exploration of binaries. Girl and woman, light and dark, doppelgangers, white swan and black swan. And so Nina’s transformation ...

Apparently, some think of “Black Swan” as high art, a deep, dark examination of a dancer’s search for perfection. Brilliantly made by Darren Aronofsky and splendidly acted by Natalie Portman ...

While this may sound confusing, Black Swan disorients you in all the right ways, helping you to understand just how fragile Nina’s grasp on her own sanity was even before the movie began, and ...