To make a boxing film without referencing Rocky or Raging Bull, is as difficult as avoiding sports clichés in a review of said film. So when I say that The Fighter stumbles over familiar...
Much has been made of Darren Aronofsky’s debt to Dario Argento, and to the Davids, Lynch and Cronenberg, in the wake of Black Swan, his new film starring Natalie Portman, which opened on Friday....