This is the movie we’d be forced to watch if the robots in 'The Terminator' won the war against humanity

You’d expect more from this dull attempt to reignite the potboiler

This is Jolie’s movie – she brings benevolence and compassion to the role of a tough, independent woman who suddenly finds herself not only protecting a child but coming to terms with her suppressed guilt

This time around, the director loses the British snark, but still favors convoluted storylines over human complexity

The characters are mere signifiers and skeletons in a universe that should be bursting with guile and passion

Even as “Strange Fruit” planted the seeds of Holiday’s destruction, it also cemented her legacy as a freedom fighter

She doesn’t let anyone get too close, yet she empathizes with everyone she meets.

Dramatic, tragic, mythological, and purely American —it’s no wonder these stories have gotten the Hollywood treatment for nearly forty years now