✅ While I’m not into classical ballet (modern is fine), the screenplay makes Swan Lake surprisingly gripping.
✅ Superior cast, gorgeously playing the roles assigned to them in Sayers’s mind. (Particularly Kunis’s are awesome.)
❌ That Lane and Prosa weren’t properly credited is unforgivable.
❌ Breathlessly cliché-ridden.
That it’s psychological horror apparently escaped sundry critics who reviewed a movie that only exists in their expectations.
Addendum
With some body horror thrown in, I forgot to mention.
Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky, 2010.
Watched at the Bambi theater on October 13, 2026, in its original language.