Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Black Swan’: Making a Case for Bringing Back Sacredness to Art Natalie Portman in her Oscar-winning performance in “The Black Swan.” (Niko Tavernise/Twentieth Century Fox)
Director Darren Aronofsky resurrected Mickey Rourke’s career with “The Wrestler,” and worked a similar boon of blessings for Natalie Portman in “Black Swan.” She won the Oscar for her performance, and she seemed in 2010 to have blossomed into the Meryl Streep of her generation. Natalie Portman as the White Swan in her shape-shifting, Oscar-winning performance as obsessive, delusional prima ballerina Nina Sayers in “The Black Swan.” (Niko Tavernise/Twentieth Century Fox)