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Jackie

In Jackie, Natalie Portman's portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy during and immediately after JFK's assassination rises above impersonation to an eerie kind of incarnation.

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By Joe Morgenstern • Dec 3, 2016 • 3m Listen

In Jackie, Pablo Larraín has made a strangely conflicted film that shows Jackie as an obsessive mythmaker and keeper of the flame -- that's a provocatively ironic approach -- but celebrates the Camelot myth in the process.

Photo: Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie.

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