By the Sea: reviews

What the critics say average 5.5 from 7

• 8.0 TimeJoe Neumaier Jolie Pitt, in her third film as a director, infuses her original screenplay with a sparseness reminiscent of Hemingway's tales of mislaid love and Michelangelo Antonioni's cinematic alienation. But 'By the Sea' is its own lovely creation, deadly serious about how grief divides, conquers and possibly unites. Read
• 7.0 Los Angeles TimesRebecca Keegan As a writer, Jolie Pitt is better at ideas than dialogue, much of which is leaden here. But the characters' behaviors feel true. Read
• 6.0 La VanguardiaJordi Batlle Caminal Jolie & Pitt field of Antonioni or rather , in the Rossellini of 'Viaggio in Italia' (...). Without being an important work, the gesture of the couple to portray unapologetic appreciated, to offer a product so distant from what their audience expects. Read
• 6.0 ClarinPablo O. Scholz Jolie Pitt (Angelina as firm now) seems to approach the European art cinema, Antonioni and after two films as director in which she proved antonym of Antonioni. Read
• 5.0 VarietyJustin Chang 'By the Sea' always offers something to tickle the eye and ear, even as it leaves the heart and mind coolly unstirred. Read
• 4.0 FotogramasPere Vall What good are such beauty and good taste if the product is more hairpiece tabs Jolie? (...) Barren (in many ways) marital drama derived from a surfeit of European cinema. Read
• 2.5 The WrapAlonso Duraide If 'By the Sea' weren?t so aggressively humorless, it might almost qualify as camp, so unsuccessful is its pursuit of weighty drama. Unintentional laughs are hard to come by here; instead, there are yawns aplenty. Read