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 filmography roles in two of 2010's top-grossing thrillers"Salt" and "The Tourist". In 2011, she directed the romantic drama "In the Land of Blood and Honey", which depicted a love story set during the Bosnian War, and appeared in the animation sequel "Kung Fu Panda 2". Jolie's biggest commercial success, as of 2014, came with the dark fantasy film "Maleficent" (2014), which grossed over $758 million worldwide, and featured her in the eponymous role. Later in the same year, she directed "Unbroken" (2014), a war drama based on a 2010 . Angelina Jolie filmography Angelina Jolie is an American actress and filmmaker.