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Created Dec 11, 2011 08:56PM PST • Edited Dec 13, 2011 10:58PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Perfect 5.0

   I found Black Swan to be thrilling, chilling, demented, tormented, awesome, gruesome, beautiful, and altogether amazing. Natalie Portman shines as Nina Sayers, a ballet dancer who wins the lead role in a production of “Swan Lake.” Parents be warned: this isn’t a dance movie for the kiddos!

4. Acting

   Perfect 5.0

   *Natalie Portman (Nina Sayers) is absolutely, stunningly brilliant. This role totally redeemed her for her participation in the Star Wars trilogy prequels.
   *Mila Kunis (lily) isn’t a standout, but she plays her part convincingly and well.
   *Vincent Cassel (Thomas Leroy) is a brilliantly pompous (and unknowingly destructive) choreographer.
   *Barbarra Hershey (Erica Sayers) is a twisted mother-of-a-ballet-dancer.
   *Winona Ryder (Beth Macintyre) plays an appropriately “aged-out-of-the-system” ballet dancer.

5. Male Stars Perfect 5.0

6. Female Stars Perfect 5.0

7. Female Costars Perfect 5.0

8. Male Costars Perfect 5.0

10. Film

    Perfect 5.0

    Amazing visuals, terrifying soundtrack, and an entirely followable (yes, I made that word up) plot drive this film home.

11. Direction Perfect 5.0

12. Play Perfect 5.0

13. Music Perfect 5.0

14. Visuals Perfect 5.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 3.5

    Enough sexual moments, gory scenes, and swearing that your mom would have to use soap to clean all the parts of this movie.

17. Sex Lewd 3.9

18. Violence Brutal 3.5

19. Rudeness Profane 3.1

21. Reality

    Natural 1.0

    Sadly, this movie is 100% plausible in the real world.

22. Circumstantial Natural 1.0

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0