“Maybe I’m a solitary crank, but ‘Black Swan’ left me disheartened. I love the idea of a ballet horror movie – hot bodies, hot tempers; why hasn’t it been done before? But watching this attempt I found myself thinking: Surely someone could make a scary-sexy ballet flick that doesn’t portray the art as a form of torture and the ballerinas – every last one – as insubstantial freaks.”