Movies starring Natalie Portman

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Annihilation

Science fiction means different things to different people. For some, it’s the quasi-fantasy/space opera of Star Wars. For others, it’s allegorical space-faring material like Star Trek. And for still others, it encompasses a strongly techni...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: 2018-02-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: Alex Garland
Cast: Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, ...
Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky, who used the cheesiness of professional wrestling as the backdrop for a powerful, tragic character study, has moved behind the scenes of another kind of performance. One doesn't often think of ballet, with its graceful moves and u...

Run Time: 1:47
U.S. Release Date: 2010-12-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, ...
Brothers

Brothers is arguably the most successful remake of a foreign film since Martin Scorsese reworked Infernal Affairs into The Departed and won the Oscar. By remaining rigorously faithful to Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish feature, Brodre, screenwriter Dav...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, ...
Closer

If you pay attention to Hollywood's romantic comedies, the interaction between men and women is all about love and companionship. If you instead rely upon the philosophy of Closer, it's all about power. Closer starts like a nice romantic drama, w...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 2004-12-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, ...
Cold Mountain

It's not often that, when the primary thread of a movie fails, the secondary storylines are compelling enough to make the overall experience a positive one. However, that occurs with Cold Mountain, a Civil War era romance where the love affair fiz...

Run Time: 2:26
U.S. Release Date: 2003-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Charlie Hunnam, ...
Everyone Says I Love You

In the past decade, only two live-action, mainstream musical motion pictures have been released. While the first, Little Shop of Horrors, met with some success, the second, Newsies, was a box-office disaster. The poor performance of the Disney-ba...

Run Time: 1:41
U.S. Release Date: 1996-12-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: MUSICAL/COMEDY
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Natalie Portman, Lukas Haas, ...
Garden State

Garden State is one of those movies that fails to stay with the viewer for an extended period of time. It's a forgettable film featuring a throw-away story with unmemorable characters and unremarkable performances. That's not to say it's bad, bec...

Run Time: 1:49
U.S. Release Date: 2004-07-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Zach Braff
Cast: Zach Braff, Ian Holm, Natalie Portman, ...
Goya's Ghosts

Though it has been said that "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition," the reality of the matter was that for centuries, life in Spain was lived on the edge of a knife, where one wrong word or action could bring an innocent victim before an ecclesi...

Run Time: 1:54
U.S. Release Date: 2007-07-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, ...
Heat

Here’s a link to my original review of Heat, published in December 1995.At the time of its 1995 release, Heat was heralded primarily as offering the first on-screen pairing of legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Although the two had shared t...

Run Time: 2:50
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Al Pacino, Natalie Portman, William Fichtner, ...
Jackie

Feature film biographies like Jackie inhabit difficult terrain. They are servants to two masters: the historical record and the needs of artistry. From time-to-time, a great one like Patton or Lincoln comes along but most are run-of-the-mill affairs ...

Run Time: 1:39
U.S. Release Date: 2016-12-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Pablo Larrain
Cast: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, ...