79
Metascore
42 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThis is, no doubt about it, a tour de force, a work that fully lives up to its director's ambitions.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity, gloriously and darkly absurd. It centers on a performance by Natalie Portman that is nothing short of heroic.
- 88Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIs Black Swan high-minded? I'm happy to say: No. It is extremely high-grade hokum, which is to say it offers several different and combustible varieties.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanLurid and voluptuous pulp fun, with a sensationalistic fairy-tale allure. You can't take it too seriously, but you can't tear your eyes away from it, either.
- 80Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondBoxoffice MagazinePete HammondWith Natalie Portman dominating the action and exhibiting a screen maturity not seen from her before, this all-stops-out Grand Guignol melodrama exhibits more than enough blood, sweat and tears (emphasis on the blood) to score nicely beyond the ballet crowd.
- 80MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekAronofsky isn't loose enough, or canny enough, to be in touch with its camp soul.
- 80New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanA psychosexual thriller that lures its viewers into a woozy nightmare.
- 75Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisSome girls fight over men. Ballerinas fight over parts. But the occasional brilliance of Black Swan is that it's a one-way fight. Nina battles herself.
- 70Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThe black/white duality isn't terribly interesting, but as in most of Aronofsky's films, an intense horror of the body and its uncontrollability fuels the rhapsodic psychodrama.
- 30Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranNot just any kind of trash, it's high-art trash, a kind of "When Tutu Goes Psycho" that so prizes hysteria over sanity that it's worth your life to tell when its characters are hallucinating and when they're not.