One of the worst movies I've seen

Rating: 3/10 (13 January 2017)

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen - seriously. It was so bad my wife and I almost walked out of the theater.
I'll start with the good first. Natalie Portman seems to have done a good job with what the writers and directors gave her, and the filmmakers did a decent job making it look like the 60s (including some big shots of the funeral procession). That's about it.
The first thing one notices is the jarring, 70s-thriller musical tones. It's as if they lifted the soundtrack right from "The Shining", and it's totally out of place.
With a handful of exceptions, the scenes and dialogue range from banal to bizarre. I think my college roommate's sophomore-year movie had better dialogue. Jackie comes off as completely spaced-out and rather dimwitted, which may of course be accurate. The viewer gets glimpses of things happening in the world (Johnson sworn in; Oswald found and shot; etc.) as Jackie paces back and forth across the White House wringing her hands, having pointless conversations with random third-parties which don't advance the story at all. Much of this is shown to the viewer through strange, drawn-out closeups. Eventually, she spends a good hour of screen time obsessing over the funeral arrangements (seriously?), to the point where I wanted to scream "MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MIND!!!!!" at the screen.
Ultimately there is no plot development, no narrative tension, no surprises for the viewer. Terrible movie, 3/10