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Peter Travers/Rolling Stone and Kenneth Turan/L.A. Times on Angelina….

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Roger Ebert: Jolie plays Christine Collins without unnecessary angles or quirks. She reacts to her son’s disappearance as any mother would. But as weeks turn into months, and after the phony “son” is produced, her anger and resolution swells up until it brings the whole LAPD fabrication crashing down.

David Ansen, NEWSWEEK: How the tenacious Collins took on the L.A. political establishment forms the backbone of the story. Once you get over the distractions of her fame and beauty, Jolie plays her with admirable restraint and slow-burning ferocity. If “Changeling” were fiction, you’d accuse it of being over the top, and it just gets more baroque when the Collins case intersects with that of a serial killer.

Lou Lumenick, NY Post: ANGELINA Jolie is in Oscar-caliber form as a woman who takes on corrupt cops in 1928 Los Angeles in Clint Eastwood’s very dark, fact-based and beautifully crafted “Changeling.” Jolie’s attention-grabbing work here will inevitably be compared with “A Mighty Heart,” in which she disappeared into the role of Mariane Pearl, widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Neither woman is a victim, but Christine more openly suffers than the stoic Mariane. And Jolie gives a big, movie star performance that rivets your attention for nearly 2½ hours.

William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Jolie’s starring role as a noble woman whose family member has been kidnapped is, on the surface, very similar to her character in last year’s “A Mighty Heart.” But she’s not hiding behind an accent here, and she gives what may be her strongest, least-mannered performance to date — as well as her most graceful star turn.

The Onion – A.V. Club: Eastwood creates a tone that’s at once stately and unsettling, allowing a lot of breathing room for Jolie’s sad, unyielding performance. She anchors a film that needs an anchor the further it goes along. Changeling works at once as a compelling mystery and an agonizing human drama…Why admit a mistake when their version of the facts solves the case and gets Jolie a son back, whether he’s really hers or not? (That she’s up against all-male antagonists, for whom words like “hysteria” provide all the explanation they need to ignore her, is never mentioned but hard to ignore.)

Mick LaSalle, SF Chronicle: Jolie is a creature of the screen, as strange looking as an alien from the planet Movie Star, but emotionally ready, present and understated. She never grandstands; she just delivers…For the benefit of the press, Christine persuades herself that the changeling is the real thing. This is an unlikely turn. Why would a mother choose to believe that a strange boy is her child? The answer is in Jolie and Eastwood’s complete understanding of the scene’s emotional dynamics. Christine is disoriented. She is disappointed as few have ever been disappointed. She is still in that halfway zone between receiving bad news and not wanting to believe it. And so, in that moment of vulnerability, she accepts this kid, who looks nothing like her child, as her so. The story touches on the respective differences in status between men and women in this earlier time.

J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This incredible but true story marks the first time Eastwood’s signature themes have found expression in a woman’s experience, and the absence of any distracting machismo only heightens his sense of helpless rage at the perpetual anguish of victims’ families.

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Wow he’s looks good there! I will feel Angelina this weekend since my hubby bought me a gorgeous diamond necklace from http://www.idonowidont.com that looks like the one Angie wore at the oscars.

So I can look chic and glam for our night out at the opera, My hubby is as romantic as Brad!

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BlessBrangelina- I hear you! Not only did the tabs not make a peep when Brad and Jen spent six plus months apart, but there are plenty of other celeb couples who spend more time apart than Brad and Angie that don’t get mentioned in the tabs.

Also, I wish the tabs would realize that:

1. In all likelyhood, Angie and Brad won’t be getting married anytime soon, if at all. They have both made it clear that they have both been through at least one marriage before, and they don’t feel the need to do it again. In fact, Angie has said that if they DO get married, it will probably be because the kids ask them to!

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2. Angie never, I repeat, NEVER said that she and Brad were involved before the divorce. What she said was “Not many people get to see the movie where their parents fell in love”. Falling in love and actually being involved with someone are two different things! Angie and Brad have both said multiple times that, although they developed feelings for each other during the filming of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, they did not act on those feelings until Brad and Jen made the decision to dissolve their marriage. Even Jen has said that she doesn’t think there was any cheating (and I doubt she’d say something like that unless she honestly thought it!).

Also, the tabs really, and I mean REALLY, need to stop painting Jen as the “victim”. I’m sure she’s sick and tired of it! She clearly moved on a long time ago. Oh, and speaking of that, I read bits and pieces of last week’s US Weekly (my one weakness when it comes to tabs!) at the library, and they had an article about Angie’s recent interviews, naturally pouncing all over the comment she made about Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

I had to chuckle at two things:

They mentioned Angie’s comment about Mad being the “professional big brother” and how he might have the chance to be a big brother yet again as early as January, citing Angie’s comment about how she plans to adopt again but you can’t start the process until any new children are six months old.

Even if the J-Ps DO begin the adoption process as soon as the twins turn six months old (which will be in January), the process will likely take close to a year to complete, just as it did with Pax. Therefore, Mad probably won’t be a big brother again until late next year at the absolute earliest. Why do the tabs think that Angie can just adopt a child in a day or two.

The other thing I had to chuckle at was that, on the cover they proclaimed, “Angelina stabs Jen in the Heart!”…Yet, in the actual article, quoted one of Jen’s friends as saying that Jen is “numb” to Angie’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith comment and that “she has so moved on”. Congratulations, US! You succesfully contridicated yourself!

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margaritam
Nov 1, 2008 at 6:14 am

Correction, margaritam. It is a no win situation for us fans. As for the Jolie-Pitts, they have bigger fish to fry.

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