While it's worth applauding Alexander for not making its legendary hero 100% hetero, there's nothing else to recommend about this stilted, tedious epic.

| Jul 27, 2021

It's not at all clear what Stone is getting at, other than suggesting that conquering the world is exhausting and psychologically damaging work.

| Feb 15, 2021

Stone has always relished posing more questions than he has answers in biopics. In Alexander, however, he enjoys it a little too much.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Though Alexander is emotionally and intellectually incoherent, it's the work of a first-rate filmmaker who creates unforgettable images...could any contemporary actor fill Alexander's globe-bestriding shoes? He remains beyond Farrell's grasp.

| Mar 13, 2018

When you look at the bloated gleeful paranoia of JFK or the hallucinatory inflation of Natural Born Killers, who would have thought Stone would pick this subject to make a film that's so much smaller than life?

| Feb 1, 2018

I didn't feel particularly emotionally involved in the story. In fact half the time, I didn't even know what was going on.

| Aug 24, 2017

The reason it's exhausting, and ultimately boring, to sit through Alexander-and why the movie is already disappearing from theaters-is that. . .there's no dramatic arc, no shaping of the life into a good story.

| Aug 18, 2017

This new set presents the film in great quality and comes with some fantastic special features, but it's doubtful that this latest version of "Alexander" is going to change anyone's mind as to the quality of the film itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2014

For the lucky few that see this without ever having viewed the first cut, they may wonder what all the criticism was about in the first place.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 9, 2011

Alexander the person was great. This movie isn't.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 9, 2010

General mistakes all across the board contribute and reinforce each other to bring it down

| May 1, 2010

This is ultimately "Alexander" as written by Danielle Steele...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 29, 2009

Stone doesn't present characters that the audience can believe in, even for one moment, as representative of their historic roles.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 15, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

This oracular piece of hero-worship is perhaps the squarest film yet from this once-hip director.

| Original Score: D | Jul 23, 2007

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Stone gives us some truly stirring visuals, music that soars and charges more often than not, and, um, performances that . . . Well, um, okay, about those performances . . .

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2006

Unwieldy and flawed, but Stone remains a tornado in an era of airless formula and -- to paraphrase our Ptolemy -- its failings are greater than most films' successes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Farrell, a remarkable actor on most occasions, is fatally miscast. His Alexander is a petulant crybaby, and it is hard to imagine anyone - let alone armies and nations galore - bending themselves to his will.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 9, 2005

Interesting but flawed film about a fascinating character.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 7, 2005