Black Swan

Wild, woolly, and whacked-out, flamboyant and feverishly psycho, Black Swan is a baroque thriller set in New York’s ballet demimonde; a near-irresistible tale of one ballerina’s psychosexual, phantasmagoric freakout; and a slow creep into insanity with a sensationalistic fairy-tale allure. Unrelentingly intense and ridiculously over the top, it’s extremely high-grade hokum, offering several combustible varieties, a gothic horror show and a thing of monstrous beauty.