The excellence in this movie lies in Caine's exquisite performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2022

Alfie emerges as a stingingly funny and perceptive comedy, with a thoroughly discomforting and discomfiting moral and very little to offer the sensation seeker.

| Aug 16, 2022

Though it's very much a product of its time, Alfie has aged well because it's a funny, sad and insightful look at an eternal struggle.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 4, 2019

In Lewis Gilbert's film the stop-go policy of laugh-cry-laugh-cry (with squeal-titter variations now and then) just doesn't work because the moods overlap.

| Jun 18, 2018

An amusing, moving and meaningful picture. Although for much of the way it tinkles along with the innocent merriment of a carousel, it dips into reality for its climax, and makes a valid and indelible impression.

| Aug 24, 2017

For all its implicit misogyny, the original 1966 film version of Bill Naughton's play remains durable because of Michael Caine's career-defining performance as the cockney ladies' man.

| Feb 10, 2012

Caine plays the sodding little spiv with a raucous charm that makes Alfie seem more interesting than he actually is.

| Apr 20, 2010

In its time, the film was praised for its sexual frankness and persuasive rendering of Swinging London; both seem quaint by contemporary standards. Caine's Cockney Don Juan, however, is sui generis.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 20, 2010

Alfie (Michael Caine) is more than just a perpetual bachelor; he's a ladies' man, a cad, a man about town. Put bluntly: Alfie loves to have sex. He meets women and takes what he wants from them: pleasure. But behind him, Alfie is leaving a trail of misery

| Original Score: 90/100 | Feb 17, 2010

Behind its alley-cat philosophy, there's some shrewd sense, some pointed barbs and a sharp moral.

| Mar 26, 2009

What makes it work is charismatic Caine and the witty, intelligent script. Both work together to keep this remorseless bastard who uses and hurts women from being completely unlikable or unsympathetic.

| Jul 25, 2007

Michael Caine gives a bravura, career-making and Oscar-nominated, performance as a Cockney Don Juan, who's by turns weak and endearing, charming and despicable, but the film has aged badly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2006

Of course he gets his comeuppance, in an ending that has all the moral weight and sincerity of a DeMille sex'n'sawdust spectacular. Good performances, though.

| Feb 9, 2006

Michael Caine's breakout performance is awesome.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2005

Caine does such a flawless job in the role that he alone makes the film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 12, 2005

a sober-minded study of one man's inability to settle down...

| Oct 20, 2004

It put Michael Caine on the movie star map, deservedly so.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 15, 2004

Caine does a wonderful job of building and maintaining sympathy for his arrant, arrogant character, despite his obvious brutishness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2004

Interestingly, the film's first person narration inclines us to relate to and identify with the protagonist, and for much of the film you like the man despite his faults.

| Original Score: 80/100 | Mar 16, 2004