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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 12 Nov 2015

At first luxurious blush it’s a jet-setting marital melodrama, one of those he-said, she-said (and wept) encounter sessions decked with designer…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Nov 2015

In this her third feature as a director, Jolie once again shows a marked talent for the visual aspects of storytelling…

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By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Nov 2015

By the Sea is dazzlingly gorgeous, as are its stars…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 12 Nov 2015

The psychodynamics may well be sound, but the problem is that Léa and François, whether in or out of bed, are much more appealing than Roland…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 12 Nov 2015

A beautiful if painfully serious novelty…

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By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 12 Nov 2015

This might not be many people's idea of a good time. It might not be anybody's…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 12 Nov 2015

This prompts the perverse thought that By the Sea may simply exist as a movie for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to watch…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 Nov 2015

Writer-director-star Angelina Jolie Pitt’s By the Sea is awfully pretty and mostly dreadful. It’s pretty dreadful…

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By Kyle Anderson (153) for Nerdist (550) on 12 Nov 2015

By the Sea is little more than a passing notion, a suggestion of a film that ought to have been a lot better than it was…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 12 Nov 2015

The scenario is too pretty for pathos to sink in…

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By Drew Mcweeny (622) for HitFix (861) on 12 Nov 2015

It sounds far sexier, just based on the synopsis, than it actually plays, though, so hopefully people aren't sold the wrong movie…

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By Anders Wright (338) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 12 Nov 2015

A meandering sexual drama set in the '70s, it's ambitious, though it at times crosses that fatal line that stretches between art, truth, beauty…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 12 Nov 2015

Jolie Pitt, in her third film as a director, infuses her original screenplay with a sparseness reminiscent of Hemingway’s tales of mislaid…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 12 Nov 2015

The result is something like a weepy Lifetime melodrama told in the languorous, self-indulgent style of European art cinema, as if Michelangelo…

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By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Nov 2015

Jolie and Pitt are both, without a doubt, very good actors, and in the film’s rare moments of vulnerability, their fights and reconciliations…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 12 Nov 2015

Maybe it's a meta commentary meant to show that a voyeuristic peek into this marriage isn't as interesting as it may seem, and people should…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 12 Nov 2015

You keep watching not just because she and Brad and the Mediterranean are beautiful, but also because small, surprising details start to take…

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By David Berry (137) for National Post (1,405) on 12 Nov 2015

There is just so much lived-in luxury and poorly borrowed Euro art-film grandeur and repressed nothing that you half expect some French narrator…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for Associated Press (1,685) on 11 Nov 2015

Too languid and artfully accessorized to work as intended…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 11 Nov 2015

What explains this self-indulgent, meaningless, crashing bore of a movie…

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