Natalie Portman delivers one of the most interesting and captivating performances of her acting career to date. Adept at seducing the audience with her on screen confidence, romance and charm, Portman invites us to travel with her into the mind of a mentally fragile dancer who battles her inner demons. Above all the film teaches one thing, that good cinema takes body, mind and soul as Portman displays on screen. A must see for film goers and also budding actors.

Honestly, probably the very worst movie I've ever seen. We always see the Academy Award nominee performances every year before the show and with all the buzz on this one and on Natalie's performance, we figured she's a safe bet. Our friend ended up walking out 1/3 of the way through and we all wished we had joined him. The cinematography was the type I hate, constant frenetic movement, which I understood was to give the film the same feeling and it did make me want to jump out of my skin! I just felt the director was entirely too self-indulgent and the story was weak. Natalie Portman is always a favorite of ours, LOVE everything she's done up until now. I completely understand why she took the role, it's an actors dream - she appears in nearly every single frame of the film! But it was just awful. If you like gray, dark, mind-numbing film this is for you, if not, choose something else!!!

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????

Black Swan is the best movie I have seen this year, Natalie Portman was perfectly cast for her role and I hope she wins the Oscar for her performance. This movie makes you think and allows you to decide for yourself what really happened. It is very rare that a movie does this, so many Hollywood movies are made for 14 year old boys and and insults the audiences intelligence. Black Swan is the opposite and it is clearly a fan favorite, I hope this sends a message to Hollywood that there is an intelligent audience out there that is starving for true art and movie magic like this movie provides. Darren Arronosky is a brilliant director and has finally made the movie he can win a Directing Oscar for. The movie itself is a character study of the light and dark side of a personality that is in all of us, and how can we reconcile both sides in our daily lives. Natalie Portmans character expresses the struggle between these opposing sides with vulnerability that draws you into her world

Like Aronofsky's past films, Black Swan is visually stunning and intellectually stimulating. It's sometimes unsubtle in its imagery, and the dialogue can be a little stilted, but it has some real surprises for you. The final 15 minutes is amazing; it's the kind of thing where you want to talk it over with friends, but you have to struggle to come up with appropriate descriptive language. My date for the evening demanded a stiff drink afterwards, to settle her nerves. All in all, a fun night out.