Angelina Jolie - Critics in Pushing Tin and The Bone Collector

In 1999, Angelina Jolie starred in Mike Newell's comedy-drama Pushing Tin, co-starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, & Cate Blanchett. She played Thornton's seductive wife. The film received a lukewarm reception from critics and Angelina Jolie's character was particularly criticized. The Washington Post wrote, "Mary (Angelina Jolie), a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home."

Angelina Jolie then worked with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (1999), an adapted crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver. She played Amelia Donaghy, a police officer haunted by Amelia' cop father's suicide, whoshe reluctantly helps Washington track down a serial killer. The movie grossed $151 million worldwide, but was a critical failure. The Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and woefully miscast."

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