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If you aren't Jennifer Aniston or Chelsea Handler then you probably don't actively hate Angelina Jolie. And why would you? She's glamorous and spooky, a quality most stars can't pull off. She adopts lots of kids and keeps Brad Pitt in line.

There's a lot more blood than honey in The Land of Blood and Honey. And that's as it should be, given that this brutal drama about genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia's civil war in the early 1990s is often difficult to watch, but is never less...

We are generally weak and cowardly as human beings. When fighting for the artificial “territories” that we believe we “deserve,” we need the ever-gargantuan weapon equivalents when staking our claim. How proud we are with those killing implements...

"In the Land of Blood and Honey" is coming from a different place. It isn't trying to sell us anything except a clear, blunt depiction of what so many women in so many countries must face when rape becomes an instrument of war.

In the Land of Blood and Honey, Angelina Jolie’s writing/directorial debut, works to rectify that. And while it doesn’t shy away from exposing the atrocities of ethnic cleansing, genocide or the crimes against women that occurred...