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Revisiting Natalie Portman’s Films

Natalie Portman has been a huge name ever since she first starred in Léon: The Professional in 1994. Since then, she’s starred in huge movies including Star Wars, V for Vendetta and Thor. This year, she’s starring in Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, which releases in Canada this month. To prepare for her critically acclaimed performance in Vox Lux, we’re looking back at Portman’s best performances:

Jackie Second Opinion Review

If you’ve been following this site, then you would have known that Silence has already been reviewed on this site. For a deeper analysis, I recommend you read Josh Tarpley’s earlier review. I won’t be doing a full on review per se but since it is a big film, I thought I’d share some of my […]

Jackie Review

As far as introductions go, the opening seconds to Jackie are just about perfect. Director Pablo Larraín’s beautiful shot composition shows us this will not be a typical biopic. Mica Levi’s bone chilling score immediately informs the audience the type of beautiful tragedy we are about to go through. Lastly, Natalie Portman’s first sentence in the film cues us into a performance that, while historically accurate, is immediately captivating as we watch a woman come...

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