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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Mar 2015

It's absorbing, well-played stuff until Serena's emotional baggage turns her into a kind of lethal Blanche DuBois and melodrama overtakes the…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 26 Mar 2015

Based on an acclaimed novel by Ron Rash, Serena is like a towering tale that’s been fed into a woodchipper…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 26 Mar 2015

It must have looked great on paper. On screen, it’s a soapy mess that even Joan Crawford in her delusional late-period prime couldn’t save…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 26 Mar 2015

The actors don’t just look uncomfortable in their period duds, they also look uneasy in their own skins, which is a feat for two such natural,…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Mar 2015

Lawrence, obviously a talented actress, is monumentally bad here…

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By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 26 Mar 2015

Cooper and Lawrence do their best, but the material consistently works against them, from the overwrought dialogue to the never-ending plot…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 26 Mar 2015

Audiences forced to endure the 109 coma-inducing minutes of Serena should bring an e-book or a soft pillow…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 26 Mar 2015

Any kind of acting requires courage. Great acting requires formidable courage…

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By Vadim Rizov (155) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Mar 2015

Played as a kind of constant wake, grimly marching on to tragedy, Serena is hurt by relentless applications of Johan Söderqvist’s unimaginatively…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 25 Mar 2015

The choppily edited and thoroughly wooden Serena utterly fails to catch fire, even when everything literally goes up in flames…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 25 Mar 2015

This is an unfortunate next step for Mr. Cooper, while Ms…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 24 Mar 2015

Whatever Ron Rash’s novel had to offer, Bier has rendered it into something soapy, with everything compelling about it washed out…

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By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Mar 2015

Screenwriter Christopher Kyle touches on hot-button issues of class conflict, land use, and no-holds-barred capitalism…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Mar 2015

The film can't reconcile Ron Rash's apocalyptic tenderness with its own eagerness to revel in romantic star allure…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 17 Mar 2015

Serena is quite bad, as it happens, but until it goes absolutely haywire in the final act, the biggest problem is that it’s all bones and…

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By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 04 Dec 2014

A film that should be shamelessly soaked in passion and thrusting erotic delirium is instead posed and prettified, to the point where “camp”…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 20 Oct 2014

An arrestingly nihilistic Depression melodrama, marked by courageous performances and exquisite production values…

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By Charlie Lyne (195) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 20 Oct 2014

This is a film full of unremarkable compromises — the kind that result in a bland film rather than a bad one…

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By Stephen Dalton (194) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 20 Oct 2014

It is difficult to believe a single word of it, still less to care about these relentlessly selfish and short-sighted characters…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Time Out London (344) on 20 Oct 2014

We don’t invest anything in either character, and with barely any tension, Serena grabs neither head nor heart…

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