A more volatile movie than you’d expect from a story like this, with scenes suddenly exploding into laughter or tears as befitting an exhausted mom’s mood swings.

| Feb 4, 2024

The cumulative effect of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is one of openness and warmth.

| Dec 12, 2023

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore stands as a remarkable chapter in the Scorsese canon.

| Dec 5, 2023

It works even though it shouldn't, because of Scorsese's innate vitality and the breakneck momentum he can generate. "Alice" doesn't match the fury of Mean Streets, but its very superficiality allows it to be lively and likable.

| Oct 12, 2023

Ellen Burstyn as Alice Hyatt (wife, widow, mother, former singer) is great in a movie that embraces the clichés of most women's lives.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 12, 2023

It's Burstyn's flair for heart-tugging warmth, however, that makes the ordinary extraordinary... She makes us care, because she really cares; she makes us cringe, because she really cringes; above all, she makes us respond, because she really responds.

| Oct 12, 2023

Juggling the moods of Robert Getchell’s script with the brilliance of Godard in his prime, Scorsese flips scenes over to reveal the other side of the coin, then balances them on edge with both sides on view.

| Oct 12, 2023

There are a few moments when it borders close enough on soap opera that a couple of bubbles squish around some bare toes, but the bulk of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a solid motion picture.

| Oct 12, 2023

"Alice" has been put together in so obvious an attempt to answer the womanless or woman-hating films of today, that I only wish I could have liked it more than I do.

| Oct 12, 2023

Ellen Burstyn, giving an Oscar-oriented performance, confirms her status as a remarkably fine actress in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore... She offers a full portrait of the human personality slowly finding courage for self-assertion.

| Oct 12, 2023

Scorsese amply fulfills the promise he showed with his very different previous feature, Mean Streets. He's done remarkably well with "Alice," which only shows up weaknesses in some shoddy plotting.

| Oct 12, 2023

What makes it especially appealing is the presence of Ellen Burstyn, who, thanks to Scorsese, has finally been given her due, a role that fully realizes her potential as an actress.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 12, 2023

Too much reality might have risked being a real downer, too little compromises the power of Miss Burstyn's odyssey. Still her performance, and Miss Ladd's are high among the year's best work

| Oct 12, 2023

The characters aren't real, the situations in which they are placed aren't real, and, as a result, one cares little how the alleged relationships develop.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 12, 2023

Ellen Burstyn plays the title role in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as though she were auditioning for the Pearly Gates Repertory Company. She's heavenly.

| Oct 12, 2023

[Ellen Burstyn] gives her most relaxed, spirited performance to date as Alice -- pure "movie star" stuff that mixes and mingles the best of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Doris Day, Thelma Ritter and just about any other actress you'd like to name.

| Oct 12, 2023

A film that is often funny, sometimes dopey and, in the end, a little muddle-headed. When Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore seems in danger of floundering, Burstyn is always there to pick it up.

| Oct 12, 2023

Ms. Burstyn is an actress of resource who burst on screen in The Last Picture Show. In this film, she not only fulfills the promise displayed in that earlier work but has placed herself as one of the most formidable talents now working in American film.

| Oct 12, 2023

The treatment accorded to it by Scorsese and screenwriter Robert Getchell is fresh and contemporary. The dialogue is funny, and the characters -- portrayed by an excellent cast headed by Ellen Burstyn -- are authentic and colorful.

| Oct 12, 2023

What saves all this from banality is Ellen Burstyn, sure to be prominent in upcoming Oscar proceedings, as a marvelously versatile Alice.

| Oct 12, 2023