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Mary Pols, Time: GOOD "...explores the complicated grey areas between captor and captive.... the most compelling, heartfelt movie Jolie has made in years. She isn't in it, but she's all over it." (Read the full review...) 892 words, 12/23/11 Jake Coyle, Associated Press: MODERATE (cg) "The heavy-handed touch of Angelina Jolie's directorial debut is evident right from the start... a movie whose narrative feels like a fictionalized United Nations presentation." (Read the full review...) 631 words, 12/22/11 Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "...the cinematic equivalent of eating your vegetables.... The romance hardly rivets, and the film's brutality (there are multiple rapes) feels gratuitous." (Read the full review...) 102 words, 01/05/12 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...when it comes to a topic like Bosnia, there's still a big difference between telling it like it is and telling it compellingly." (Read the full review...) 346 words, 01/06/12 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "At times, Jolie rises to the pulpit when she should stay on the ground. Her theme is too complex for her scattered screenplay to encompass. It's as a director that Jolie shines." (Read the full review...) 298 words, 01/06/12 Claudia Puig, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "...feels like the sober, hard-hitting work of a humanitarian." (Read the full review...) 509 words, 01/06/12 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "I found 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' to be moving and involving, but somehow reduced by its melodrama to a minor key." (Read the full review...) 879 words, 01/06/12 James Rocchi, MSN Movies: MODERATE (cg) "...the film strains and struggles with its weight of portent and pain.... It may have more in ambition than it does in execution, but it deserves to be taken seriously..." (Read the full review...) 767 words, 12/19/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "...introduces the idea that war is very much about the violent domination of women... The film moves briskly and easily holds your attention..." (Read the full review...) 748 words, 12/23/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...gripping... a movie that is often harrowing, never less than intense but important, one unafraid of moments too many have chosen to forget." (Read the full review...) 376 words, 12/23/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "Its core story is less compelling than its overall atmosphere.... Yet the fact remains that this is a first film and Jolie has accomplished a great deal in a difficult area." (Read the full review...) 680 words, 12/23/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "Jolie has potential as a director... Like many a director before her though, she must also master another skill: learning how to fire a writer." (Read the full review...) 432 words, 12/23/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "As a director, Jolie rarely flinches in showing us the worst of the worst. As a writer, she's still learning how to impart background information..." (Read the full review...) 677 words, 01/06/12 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "A confident filmmaking debut from Angelina Jolie that takes a tough but compassionate look at a ghastly ethnic war." (Read the full review...) 353 words, 02/03/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "I found 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' to be moving and involving, but somehow reduced by its melodrama to a minor key." (Read the full review...) 879 words, 01/06/12 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...a United Nations extra-credit project about the Bosnian War... a sanctimonious vanity commercial for Angelina Jolie's own good intentions." (Read the full review...) 231 words, 12/21/11 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Jolie knows how to hold an audience's attention and sets up shots with style and patience.... But the same can't be said of her writing, and that's the main flaw of her film..." (Read the full review...) 608 words, 01/20/12 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...nothing if not ambitious.... Jolie's picture is so glutted with spelled-out meaning that there's no space to breathe - what tries too hard to be informing ends by suffocating." (Read the full review...) 648 words, 01/20/12 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Unfortunately, Jolie's take isn't consistently nuanced.... But she does shed light on a vicious conflict and the way war compromises even the most courageous person's values." (Read the full review...) 347 words, 01/19/12
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "If viewers are left feeling just as impotent as many of the characters, that may be precisely what Jolie intended for a film that asks nothing more of its audience than to bear witness." (Read the full review...) 466 words, 01/13/12 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a brave undertaking on Jolie's part. It's impressively steady filmmaking for a first-timer, and a powerful, powerfully disturbing subject to take on." (Read the full review...) 529 words, 01/06/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD (cg) "Too many coincidences and, ultimately, too narrow a focus. But it is a genuinely noble effort, a worthy attempt to make some sense of the inexplicable." (Read the full review...) 563 words, 01/13/12 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "An agonized romantic melodrama.... Jolie has a mission and a story she thinks is strong enough to hold it; what she doesn't have, yet, is the filmmaking force of will." (Read the full review...) 666 words, 01/06/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: MODERATE (cg) "...with its literal filmmaking and dutiful speeches feels more like one of those overly scripted appearances celebrity activists are always making in front of Congress." (Read the full review...) 539 words, 12/23/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "...a mix of the powerful and the ridiculous, and eventually the ridiculous wins.... the ill-conceived fictional elements take the picture right off the rails." (Read the full review...) 605 words, 01/06/12 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...handsomely and confidently filmed... many of the film's quiet moments are beautifully handled.... in terms of storytelling, the film doesn't entirely add up..." (Read the full review...) 385 words, 01/06/12 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The Bosnian war was the worst calamity to hit Europe in 50 years, and even two decades later, the wounds haven't healed." (Read the full review...) 336 words, 02/03/12 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "...one of those man's-inhumanity-to-man movies, necessarily wearying and grim, but also well-made and thoughtful." (Read the full review...) 305 words, 02/03/12
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...a United Nations extra-credit project about the Bosnian War... a sanctimonious vanity commercial for Angelina Jolie's own good intentions." (Read the full review...) 231 words, 12/21/11 Tom Meek, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "Jolie's narrative power has limitations, but thanks to the cast and chaotic historical backdrop, the horror of hate and war takes on a compelling human face." (Read the full review...) 150 words, 01/05/12 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: WEAK (cg) "...a film of shuddering earnestness and fevered good intentions gone awry, a dreary slog of a message movie with little but noble if unfulfilled aspirations to commend it." (Read the full review...) 330 words, 12/22/11 Alison Willmore, Movieline: VERY GOOD (cg) "Jolie's narrative debut arrives surrounded by a halo of good intentions and the sense that celebrity is being used as the spoonful of sugar to make the didacticism go down." (Read the full review...) 922 words, 12/22/11 Andrew Schenker, Slant: WEAK (cg) "After a while, Jolie's catalogue of horrors begins to feel less like a necessary addition to an underconsulted historical record and more like a numbing assault on the viewer." (Read the full review...) 673 words, 12/18/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Unfortunately, Jolie's take isn't consistently nuanced.... But she does shed light on a vicious conflict and the way war compromises even the most courageous person's values." (Read the full review...) 347 words, 01/19/12 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: EXCELLENT (cg) "...there is nothing 'Hollywood' about this film: it stars local actors and is in the local languages, and it shies not one whit from the horrors of the war." (Read the full review...) 343 words, 02/24/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "...introduces the idea that war is very much about the violent domination of women... The film moves briskly and easily holds your attention..." (Read the full review...) 748 words, 12/23/11 Mark Jenkins, NPR: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a serious movie and a well-made one... the director, as might be expected, elicits nuanced performances. There's only so much the actors can do, however, with Jolie's script." (Read the full review...) 583 words, 12/23/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "Its core story is less compelling than its overall atmosphere.... Yet the fact remains that this is a first film and Jolie has accomplished a great deal in a difficult area." (Read the full review...) 680 words, 12/23/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...a vivid, downbeat foreign-language melodrama... crafted in a highly credible imitation of the Eastern European filmmaking style." (Read the full review...) 1,126 words, 12/22/11
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: MODERATE "...alternately disturbing and titillating picture reps a dramatically misguided attempt to renew public awareness of the 1992-95 Balkan conflict." (Read the full review...) 946 words, 12/16/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...impressively mounted... gradually reveals itself first and foremost as a compendium of atrocities, a catalogue of pointless abuse and killings no one did much to stop for three years." (Read the full review...) 1,121 words, 12/16/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "Its core story is less compelling than its overall atmosphere.... Yet the fact remains that this is a first film and Jolie has accomplished a great deal in a difficult area." (Read the full review...) 680 words, 12/23/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "While visually the movie does not look like a first work, narratively and dramatically, it suffers from some serious weaknesses.... the melodrama becomes contrived..." (Read the full review...) 729 words, 12/22/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "...introduces the idea that war is very much about the violent domination of women... The film moves briskly and easily holds your attention..." (Read the full review...) 748 words, 12/23/11
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