Storyline
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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Cast
Richard E. Grant, Beth Grant, John Carroll Lynch, Corey Johnson, Matthew Bowerman, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt, Penny Downie, Georgie Glen, Max Casella, Ralph Brown, Aidan O'Hare, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, Peter Hudson, Deborah Findlay, John Mitchell, David Caves, Hélène Kuhn, Nathan Ferguson, Michael Garvey, Philip Greene, Marla Aaron Wapner, Don Whatley, Benjamin Loeh, Caspar Phillipson, Sara Verhagen, Julie Judd, John Paval, Bill Dunn, Vivienne Vernes, Craig Sechler, Rebecca Compton, Bryan Ashby, David DeBoy, Stéphane Höhn, Serge Onteniente, Sunnie Pelant, Aiden Weinberg, Brody Weinberg, Roland Pidoux, Emmanuel Herault, William Beaux d'Albenas, Nicolas Guigou, David Friszman, Chloé Berthier, Eric Soubelet, Gaspard Koenig, Mathilde Ripley, Barbara Foliot, Albain Venzo, Frédérique Adler, Patrick Hamel, Jeff Moore, Lindsay Dyan Epp, Yann Bean, Eric Supensky, Alejandro Chamorro, Neil McNeil, Dan Mendel, Stephanie Cookie Carson, Chaz Riddle, Sarah Middlemiss, Kahil Dotay, Loretta Burnette, George Kardulias, Kayla Anderson, Chrisdine King, Grégoire Foessel, Denise Basile, Stephen L. Kolb, Rick Burk, Jay Bush II, Robert E Thompson, Dawn Lucajko, Richard Allen Cramer, Maya Nalli
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Reviews
100
It’s a singular vision from an uncompromising director that happens to be about one of the most famous women in American history. Jackie is not Oscar bait – it’s great cinema.
100
Extraordinary in its piercing intimacy and lacerating in its sorrow, Jackie is a remarkably raw portrait of an iconic American first lady, reeling in the wake of tragedy while at the same time summoning the defiant fortitude needed to make her husband's death meaningful, and to ensure her own survival as something more than a fashionably dressed footnote.
100
Jackie pummels you with grandeur, with its epic visions of the funeral and that terrible moment in the convertible (all of it rendered in pitch-perfect detail and a subtle 16-millimeter shudder). Yet the film's lasting impact is dazzlingly intellectual: Just as JFK himself turned politics into image-making, his wife continued his work when no one else could.
100
Eschewing standard biopic form at every turn, this brilliantly constructed, diamond-hard character study observes the exhausted, conflicted Jackie as she attempts to disentangle her own perspective, her own legacy, and, perhaps hardest of all, her own grief from a tragedy shared by millions.
91
Anchored by Natalie Portman’s achy-eyed performance, Jackie is, despite a few wrinkles at the end, about the best version of this story you can get.
