Angelina and Brad Pitt Get Mixed Reviews at Cannes

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie caused a crowd frenzy in Cannes with the simple act of holding hands. OK, make that the two most famous and perfect-looking people on the planet were holding hands.

The duo's PDA was on display as they visited a French restaurant last night and had a romantic meal, perhaps celebrating the announcement that Jolie's directorial debut was picked up by a distributor and the premiere of Pitt's latest prestige pic, the Terrence Malick-helmed The Tree of Life.

So who purchased Jolie's controversial film on the Bosnian War? And what did the reviewers say about Pitt's performance?
First Jolie's movie, which is set during the Bosnian War and focusing on a fictional romance between a Bosnian woman and a Serbian man. The film made headlines for its trouble-plagued shoot. The production was initially banned from being filmed in Sarajevo after Bosnian officials had concerns with the script, then it wrapped early in the country and decamped to Budapest.

Well, after months of calling the movie variations on Untitled Angelina Jolie Project, we have learned that the official title is In the Land of Blood and Honey and it will be released by FilmDistrict, a subsidiary of GK Films, in the U.S. on Dec. 23.

Meanwhile, Pitt's latest endeavor is earning decidedly mix notices. Sure, his flicks tend to polarize critics, but there have been huge expectations this time out, seeing that he's starring with Sean Penn in a drama by the iconoclastic Malick, who has made just five movies in his 40-year career and whose rare output usually sends critics into a tizzy.

The Hollywood Reporter likens the movie to 2001: A Space Odyssey, claiming Tree is "hardly a movie for the masses and will polarize even buffs." But the review goes on to say that there are "great, heady" things in the film, "both obvious and evanescent," that will qualify it as an "exceptional and major film." And the trade hails Pitt's performance as one of his fines.

Variety calls the movie an "extraordinary" and "transfixing" through time and memory.

And then there are the outright haters.

Entertainment Weekly gave Tree a big thumbs-down, describing the movie as a sermon that goes off on too many tangents.

Movieline bashed it, too, calling the film a "gargantuan work of pretension and cleverly concealed self absorption" in which Malick pays more attention to the gorgeous photography than he does to the characters.

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Angelina Jolie Happy to Talk About Adoption with Her Kids

It's not as serious as some of her films, but Angelina Jolie says she cherishes being a part of the Kung Fu Panda movies – because they're both entertaining and educational for her children.

Kung Fu Panda 2 resonates in particular because it has an adoption theme. And of course, three of the six Jolie-Pitt children – Maddox, Pax and Zahara – are adopted.

"The words adoption, birth mothers [and] orphanages are happy words in our household, and we talk about those subjects all the time," Jolie, 35, said Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, where her movie is premiering.

The Oscar winner voices Tigress in the Panda films. "I'm especially excited to be in this movie because of my daughters," she said. "She's one of the best characters I've ever played. My kids love it, and in many ways I did it for them."

Jolie, who wore a belted, beige Ferragamo dress with jewels from her own line with Robert Procop, said her partner Brad Pitt and the family are all with her at the festival. "The kids are back at the hotel, running around, having a great time and probably causing a mess," she said. "They love it here."

Pitt, 47, is in Cannes for work: His film, The Tree of Life, premieres later on during the festival.

Jolie said the Panda movies reflect her own sense of family. "At the end of the day, we're all big kids," she said. "Life is very much about family and the family you choose. You can define your own destiny despite what happened to you in the past."

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Cannes Film Festival to Welcome Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

The French Riviera is the place to be this week, as movie stars flock to the 64th Cannes Film Festival on the Mediterranean in the south of France.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are both expected to attend, for different films. Jolie arrives Thursday (along with Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman) for Kung Fu Panda 2. Pitt is due next Monday for The Tree of Life. The couple are expected to walk the red carpet together for his premiere.

Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams joined Woody Allen for photos on Wednesday. They costar in Allen's new film, Midnight in Paris, which opens the festival.

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Brad Pitt Flashes a Wedding Ring — Is He Telling Angelina Jolie He’s Ready to Get Hitched?

That suspiciously shiny silver band on Brad Pitt’s left hand is making us wonder: Is the Moneyball star having altar envy?

Yes, Brad and Angelina Jolie have proclaimed they’re not getting married until everyone — i.e., gays — can get married all across the U.S., but when we spot Brad with a wedding ring on, we gotta ask, Is Brad getting an itchy ring finger? (Just for the record, he was on the L.A. set of his new film Moneyball.)

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Angelina Jolie's Tourist Promo Pictures Give Us A Case Of Deja Vu

Angelina Jolie starred with Brad Pitt in 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which was followed by Pitt splitting with wife Jennifer Aniston and getting together with Jolie. Oops!

Now Angie stars in The Tourist - which opens in theaters on December 10th, 2010 - opposite Johnny Depp, and we can't help but notice this one promo pic in particular...

It strongly echoes a promo pic used for Mr. & Mrs. Smith five years earlier, except Angelina's dance partner has changed from Brad to Johnny.

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Angelina Jolie In Pakistan to visit the Flood Victims (PHOTOS)

Angelina Jolie was in Pakistan Tuesday in her role as UNHCR ambassador.

She spoke at a news conference and visited a camp setup for people displaced by the heavy flooding, pen and paper in hand.

And Angelina met with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, at his home in Islamabad.

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Angelina Jolie Takes The Twins On a Location Scout in Budapest for her Directional Debut

Angelina Jolie took her darling two-year-old twins, Knox and Vivienne, with her on a location scout today in Budapest for her upcoming directorial debut on a film about about a Serbian soldier who rapes a Bosnian woman during the war in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Angelina will also take the female lead in the film as well.

Jolie's been in Europe promoting her starring turn in Salt with the twins while Brad stays home with the rest of their brood.

But soon the entire family will move to the Hungarian city dubbed the "Paris of the East" when shooting starts on the film in November (some will also be shot in Belgrade, Serbia.)

Angelina was apparently inspired to shoot this story after visiting refugee camps in Bosnia with Brad this spring.

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