Everything about “Jackie” is beautiful. From the first lady’s wardrobe to the symmetry in each frame to the booming score, the film’s beauty is eerie, haunting even, among such obvious...

In Season 2 of AMC’s “Mad Men,” Paul Kinsey remarks that all women want to be “either a Jackie or a Marilyn.” At the time of the scandal surrounding former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, these...