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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 11 Nov 2015

Jolie Pitt, who also wrote and directed, shows a lot of skin (her own and her cast’s) without ever really getting under it…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for AtHomeInHollywood.com (165) on 11 Nov 2015

The characters are not only unlikable, passive-aggressive jerks, they are boring and predictable to boot…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 11 Nov 2015

As beautiful as it is boring, Angelina Jolie Pitt has successfully created a movie that she might want to watch... but no one else…

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By Mara Reinstein (308) for Us Weekly (308) on 11 Nov 2015

Angelina Jolie is determined to film herself looking as glamorous and bored as possible…

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By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Nov 2015

If it stumbles when it seeks our sympathy, it thrives when it's exploiting our fascination with the surface of things, and all that's unknowable…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Nov 2015

The film doesn't demonstrate belief in much of anything except that audiences must be so desperate for a peek into these stars' private lives…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 10 Nov 2015

Underneath the stilted dialogue and the sometimes dodgy, sometimes close-enough attempts at capturing ennui (or, as they say, Antoniennui)…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Nov 2015

Jolie Pitt’s insistence on creating a piece that reflects the harsh inner state of a person suffering to understand herself as a wife and…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 06 Nov 2015

By the Sea always offers something to tickle the eye and ear, even as it leaves the heart and mind coolly unstirred…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 06 Nov 2015

Roland and Vanessa simply aren’t sufficiently compelling to provoke us to fill in the blanks…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 06 Nov 2015

There's no catharsis at the end from the journey taken, just relief that it's over…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 06 Nov 2015

If By the Sea weren’t so aggressively humorless, it might almost qualify as camp, so unsuccessful is its pursuit of weighty drama…

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By Nigel M. Smith (79) for Guardian (4,584) on 06 Nov 2015

By the Sea’s uncompromising nature is its most admirable asset. It’s a vanity project that’s difficult to love, but alluring to unpack…

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By Scott Mendelson (400) for Forbes (586) on 06 Nov 2015

In its own way, it is as loving an homage as something like House of the Devil, Super 8, or Hobo With A Shotgun in terms of painstakingly crafting…

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