As good as the performances are, by the end of the film the story descends into melodrama which underscores the overall unoriginality of the script.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

About Alex is a film in a genre that has been done before, but shows promise from all parties involved.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 31, 2021

Though it may be reminiscent of too many greater or similar films, About Alex at least does what it does well, and there's enough passion in the proceedings to reel you in to the final frames.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 30, 2019

Most of the characters are superficial and underdeveloped, while the film itself is filled with predictable scenarios. Strong performances by the cast elevate the material, but it's simply not enough.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 17, 2016

Perhaps we can view this in 30 years as a lightweight text mirroring some of Occupy Wall Street, and perhaps the rise of Elizabeth Warren, although I'm quite sure it will be forgotten about well before then.

| Original Score: C | Mar 26, 2016

Nice to meet you, Truthteller. Meet your fellow stereotypes...

| Original Score: D- | Jul 14, 2015

A riff on the 1983 classic The Big Chill, this ensemble drama's reunion of old friends differs because Alex's suicide fails this time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 15, 2014

Ultimately, the portrayals in About Alex are all caricatures that don't really ring true.

| Original Score: 4.9/10 | Aug 14, 2014

Neither the script's up-to-the-minute signifiers nor its cheekily self-aware humor can entirely dispel a formulaic feel.

| Aug 10, 2014

The whole movie feels like sitting through a monologue read by over-privileged millennials reading pages from their pubescent diary, sharing shallow revelations about crushes and car envy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2014

The intelligence and unhackneyed humor of the believable, unself-conscious screenplay by fledgling director Mr. Zwick (son of veteran director Edward Zwick) deserves special praise. It never hits a false note.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2014

I was pleasantly surprised by much of "About Alex," a film that features a stronger-than-average ensemble for this subgenre even if it too often succumbs to predictable, traditional turns of Screenwriting 101.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 8, 2014

The chronicle of a less self-absorbed generation, it's less annoying than The Big Chill but also less funny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 8, 2014

About Alex is familiar inside and out, but that doesn't make it any less true. Just the opposite.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 7, 2014

Doomed to go unnoticed by a generation that can't be bothered with movies so representationally about itself, a generation that's already too self-aware in a literal manner.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 7, 2014

Only Plaza's performance as the troubled Sarah comes close to creating a three-dimensional character.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2014

The insight that social media fosters false intimacy is old news. The film shows only a half-formed sense of how careers have changed in 30 years.

| Aug 7, 2014

The movie stalls in a limbo of half-realized characters and superficial weightiness.

| Aug 7, 2014

About Alex still has sufficient charm, wit and occasional wisdom to make it worthwhile. Just don't expect another Big Chill.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2014

Taste, talent and lineage only go so far when nearly every line feels like it's from a script, not life. There's not a single surprise in this 96 minutes of millennial moaning.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2014