Dear Angelina Jolie, your new movie is boring

Angelina Jolie Pitt as Vanessa in a scene from the film By The Sea. Photo: Universal Pictures

Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt teamed up for the first time on screen in 10 years for By The Sea but Hollywood's leading power couple got scathing early reviews for the movie, which some deemed a laborious vanity project.

By The Sea was written and directed by Jolie Pitt and inspired by the grief she experienced over the death in 2007 of her mother. It focuses on the stale marriage of former dancer Vanessa (played by Jolie Pitt) and her husband, blocked writer Roland (played by Pitt).