Angelina Jolie critic Peter Stack wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble." She won the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review. In 1999, Jolie starred in the comedy-drama "Pushing Tin", alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. The film met with mixed reception from critics, and Jolie's character—Thornton's seductive wife—was particularly criticized; writing for "The Washington Post", Desson Howe dismissed her as "a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of
Angelina Jolie more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top." "Hackers" failed to make a profit at the box office, but developed a cult following after its video release. After starring in the modern-day "Romeo and Juliet" adaptation "Love Is All There Is" (1996), Jolie appeared in the road movie "Mojave Moon" (1996), of which "The Hollywood Reporter" said, "Jolie, an actress whom the camera truly adores, reveals a comic flair and the kind of blatant sexuality that makes it entirely credible that Danny Aiello's character would drop everything