The Other Woman

Natalie Portman plays a home wrecker named Emilia in The Other Woman, writer-director Don Roos' unsatisfying adaptation of Ayelet Waldman's 2006 novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Can you picture it? No? Neither, it would seem from her unconvincing performance, could Portman, whose Black Swan newsworthiness surely figures in the theatrical release of this two-year-old movie. (It's already