Jackie

Perhaps it’s simply that “Jackie” is a biopic that is actually interested in its subject, and not just in what happened to her.

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In his presence — and with just about every other man who dares to challenge her, including her brother-in-law Bobby (Peter Sarsgaard) — she’s nothing less than formidable, an iron fist in a little white glove.

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The film takes Jackie’s cunning and dissimulations as much for granted as it does her elegance and love of couture.

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Natalie Portman reveals the artifice and the agony of Jackie in an arresting biopic.

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Amid the infamy and tragedy of having a famous husband, Jacqueline Kennedy gives her most revealing confession in Jackie to a priest: “I never wanted fame. I just became a Kennedy.”

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Expressionist take on Jacqueline Kennedy in the aftermath of JFK's murder is fueled by an amazing, go-for-broke performance.

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White’s essay would later become famous for a particular passage wherein Jackie describes JFK’s presidency as an idealist “Camelot,” with the Kennedys as a sort of American pseudo-monarchy. None of the things the president is credited with today — the Apollo missions, progress in the civil rights movement, and so on — had yielded any fruit by 1963.

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Jackie is Natalie Portman's show, and she never wastes an opportunity to dazzle as JFK's glamorous grieving widow.

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Director Pablo Larrain’s impressionistic portrait of JFK’s widow mixes familiar images and intrusive moments that don’t quite add up.

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There are two movies in "Jackie," Pablo Larraín's film about Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) immediately before, during and after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. One of these movies is just OK. The other is exceptional. The first one keeps undermining the second.

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Natalie Portman stars as Jacqueline Kennedy in the period during and after her husband’s assassination.

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Chilean director Pablo Larraín (The Club, No) is a passionately political filmmaker, unafraid to tangle with explosive issues in his home country and unsparing in his placement of the occasional grisly detail.

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Pablo Larraín's film bluntly hammers home the notion that history is framed by perception rather than reality.

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Clipped, controlled and composed, Jackie Kennedy was a woman of her times, but since composure doesn’t win you Oscar nominations, Natalie Portman opts to play the part with a sort of emotional incontinence.

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I happen to find the result intrusive, presumptuous, and often absurd, but, for anyone who thinks that all formality is a front, and that the only point of a façade is that it should crack, Jackie delivers a gratifying thrill.

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