“Blood Diamond” is a visually sumptuous, bullet-train-paced thriller with a really provocative theme. Director Edward Zwick and company give it just the kind of explosive elements it needs to ...

His new film, "Blood Diamond," is very much in this tradition. It's an adventure set in the 1999 Sierra Leone civil war that's out to educate its audience about two specific aspects of the ...

In Blood Diamond, however, the ticket out isn’t treasured letters of transport, but treasure itself: a giant pink diamond discovered by a poor fisherman (Djimon Hounsou) in the rural slave mines ...

Critics are touting the movie ‘‘Blood Diamond’’ as a part of a growing genre of socially conscious Hollywood productions. But the film’s good message is drowned out by the many bad ones.

Yet Blood Diamond doesn't really convince as a movie: ... who drive citizens into slave labor and recruit armies of dead-eyed child soldiers. After R.U.F. thugs raze his village, ...

Blood Diamond <i>Review: ... The average villager in 1990s Sierra Leone lived in constant fear that he/she would be killed or turned into a slave, all to help spread the diamond trade.