In the Land of Blood and Honey Reviews

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• you probably won't want to see that one, either

  by Dave White [Movies.com ]

• visually the movie does not look like a first work, narratively and dramatically, it suffers from some serious weaknesses

  by Emanuel Levy [EmanuelLevy.Com ]

• unfortunately, "Blood and Honey" has script problems: Its core story is less compelling than its overall atmosphere

  by Kenneth Turan [Los Angeles Times ]

• the final developments shift from realism to melodrama

  by Mark Jenkins [NPR ]

• the film's final line comes across as both quietly dramatic and highly unlikely

  by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]

• the creation of over- and under-drawn characters chip away at the good intentions and the skills of much of the cast

  by Howard Feinstein [Screen International ]

• the character's shifts between "good" and "bad" seem overly schematic and the central storyline feels at once underthought and overdetermined

  by Andrew Schenker [Slant Magazine ]

• so the film is a head-spinning mix of dead babies and romantic dinners, pillow talk and mass executions. Blood and honey don't taste right together

  by Kyle Smith [New York Post ]

• plodding words into the characters’ mouths that would work better in the kind of on-screen textual explanations

  by Manohla Dargis [New York Times ]

• one that doesn't entirely work as an act of storytelling, but whose end goal is a grisly success

  by Matt Patches [Hollywood.com ]

• occasionally, the movie italicizes its points with heavy musical drones, but its tone is remarkably even and concentrated

  Review rate : B by Joshua Rothkopf [Time Out New York ]

• it deserves to be taken seriously as a debut by someone who may yet be as natural and assured behind the camera as she seems to be in front of it

  by James Rocchi [MSN Movies ]

• has some moments of first-movie clumsiness, but it’s soberly and elegantly shot

  by Andrew O'Hehir [Salon.com ]

• give magnetic, raw performances

  by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]

• closing titles confirm that the motivating intent in making In the Land of Blood and Honey was activist rather than artistic

  by Karina Longworth [Village Voice ]

• at a certain point, the film almost seems to sense its scenario tilting into tarted-up banality and abruptly shifts gears

  by Justin Chang [Variety ]

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