“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,” he wrote in his review.
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Another critic described the story chronicling a distant couple’s vacation in France as “a vanity project that’s difficult to love.” Other complaints include a bland script, “slow character moments,” a “grueling” running time.
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The rotten reaction to the first screening could be troubling for Universal Pictures, which is launching the $10 million film in the U.S. with a limited release on Nov. 13 in hopes of sparking positive word of mouth from audiences and critics, alike.
Don't forget about the Forbes article destroying "By The Sea" calling it
"a film school project" that "[comes] off like a feature-length perfume commercial."
She needs to stop pretending she can write a movie 
