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‘Jackie' Reviews: Natalie Portman Gave Oscar-Worthy Performance

By Leian N. | Update Date: Dec 21, 2016 08:21 PM EST

Critics have been generous in giving positive "Jackie" reviews that the film has been predetermined to receive an Oscar Award. Although the timeline of the film was short-lived, Natalie Portman's portrayal of the main character was incredible and the way the story told behind-the-scenes events of the Kennedy assassination was nothing less than spectacular.

During November 1963, the widower and First Lady at the time, Jacqueline Kennedy, went on an interview with writer Theodore H. White in her Hyannis Port home. The details have been an untold mystery to Americans until director Pablo Larrain created the "Jackie" biopic, which received tremendous reviews.

At first, the "Jackie" reviews said that the story was told in an emotional, insightful, and narrative way, reported Nola. The movie became even more intriguing for the audience as Kennedy was expected to be a princess, the daughter of a successful Wall Street stockbroker.

Instead, Natalie Portman's portrayal of the character shed more light on her true identity and coping mechanisms after John F. Kennedy was shot by a sniper right next to the First Lady.

In fact, "Jackie" reviews claimed that Portman's portrayal was inspiringly convincing that she did not seem like she was playing a part. It allegedly gave Americans a better insight of a woman who went through hell when she had to bury her husband by insisting that she ride alongside the casket and endangered the attendees of the funeral.

The story also told a short timeline of the widowed First Lady but, as Buffalo News put it, how the story was told and how Portman appeared naturally when playing the proved that the film deserved the positive "Jackie" reviews. In fact, it was considered as one of the greatest movies of the year.

With positive "Jackie" reviews over the month, will the film garner Natalie Portman an Oscar award for Best Actress?

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