Not quite the 'Dario Argento on crack' movie that Mark Kermode described it as - but an intense cinematic tour-de-force all the same. Completely off the rails for a mainstream Oscar nominated picture. It's operatic, fantastical and perverse but always emotionally compelling. Aronofsky delivers on his early promise. Natalie Portman comes of age and Vincent Cassel is as watchable as always. A film full of strange and dark alchemy.
