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By Susan G. Cole (137) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 17 Nov 2015

This excruciating 70s-set melodrama about an estranged couple trying to escape to a hotel in the south of France has zero sizzle…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 17 Nov 2015

It’s a vacuous affair, dull performances trapped in duller writing, ironically funny only when you take the writer’s words to be the screenwriter’s…

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By Monica Castillo (380) for International Business Times (181) on 15 Nov 2015

Jolie-Pitt's screenplay leaves much to be desired as its characters languish under the coastal sun…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Spliced Personality (175) on 14 Nov 2015

Those screams you hear are thousands of Us Weekly readers trying to process an Antonioni homage…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 13 Nov 2015

Both Jolie Pitt and Pitt have demonstrated their chops in far better movies…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 13 Nov 2015

A decade later, these tabloid hall-of-famers are finally back to share the screen in By the Sea — glumly emoting in a pretentiously arty,…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for Dork Shelf (109) on 13 Nov 2015

Likely to be dismissed by many, it's a charming film that feels like a love letter to an earlier time while also toying with our contemporary…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 13 Nov 2015

Writer-director Angelina Jolie's attempt to emulate European art cinema is a slow, sodden, stupefyingly dull take on a 1970s marriage gone bad…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 13 Nov 2015

Angelina Jolie Pitt does something remarkable with the third feature film she's directed…

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By S. Jhoanna Robledo (697) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 13 Nov 2015

Interesting but flawed film about marriage is very mature…

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By James Verniere (1,180) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 13 Nov 2015

An intriguing and picturesque evocation of the Euro art films of the 1960s and '70s about a married couple wrestling with their demons…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 13 Nov 2015

It is baffling to discover that for her third directorial effort, By the Sea, she has produced a film that is such a borderline unendurable…

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By Liz Braun (961) for Toronto Sun (419) on 13 Nov 2015

By the Sea [is] a strange, dream-like undertaking and ravishing to look at. What it all means is tougher to work out…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 13 Nov 2015

By the Sea is a so-so film, but its meandering stretches of decaying glamour make it about 10 times more interesting than most Oscar bait…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 13 Nov 2015

[A] curious movie that can't decide if it wants to be enigmatic or forthright…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 13 Nov 2015

There's little real drama here…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 13 Nov 2015

Roland and Vanessa's distress, vapid and insufficiently motivated to start with, is further imperiled by the director's heavy-handed screenwriting…

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By Allison Shoemaker (83) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 13 Nov 2015

Watching By the Sea is like being trapped in Vanessa's beautiful, depressingly empty room…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 13 Nov 2015

What the Pitts failed to realize during production, is that there is more to those beloved European art-house films than pretty scenery and…

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By Rebecca Keegan (25) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 Nov 2015

As a writer, Jolie Pitt is better at ideas than dialogue, much of which is leaden here. But the characters' behaviors feel true…

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