| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Nothing much happens in Alice's House, and a turning point in the plot is terribly contrived, but as sociology and maybe even a pilot for a soap serial, the movie is worth a look.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2008

Even though it sounds awfully depressing, there's something moving about watching people go at their lives with everything they have -- or don't have.

| Apr 10, 2008

Like a Brazilian telenovela unfolding in real time, the film fans its cards out slowly until we can see for ourselves the deck is stacked.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2008

Although the characters are steeped in the culture of telenovelas and voodoo superstition, Alice's House is a subtly flavorful slice of life rather than a steamy potboiler.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 25, 2008

In a remarkably assured, no-frills feature debut, Brazilian documentarian Chico Teixeira draws a vivid portrait of marital and familial dysfunction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2008

Teixeira elicits extraordinary performances from his entire cast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2008

Writer-director Chico Teixeira, who started out making documentaries, watches from afar as his middle-class characters go about their day-in, day-out activities, most of which revolve around sex.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2008

Some stories, Teixeira is wise enough to realize, are best left unadorned.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2008

What lingers after watching Alice's House are not the moments of conflict but the inexorable rhythms of daily life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 25, 2008

Chico Teixeira's languid, libidinous Alice's House is the best argument against marriage and motherhood to appear in many a year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2008

Documaker Chico Teixeira gives a light, natural feel to his small but fetching first feature, set in a working class household in Sao Paulo that gets turned upside down by everyday dramas of sexual and emotional betrayal.

| Jan 24, 2008

Despite all the crises brewing in this family, we never feel there's anything at stake.

Full Review | Jan 24, 2008

Ribas delivers a natural, earthy performance that has helped this film win numerous awards on the festival circuit.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2008

Alice's House is an utterly average foreign art-house film, with all the strengths and flaws that label implies.

| Jan 22, 2008

The sense of realism Chico Teixeira brings to his first feature-length fiction is fussy and unilluminative of character when it should be spontaneous.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 9, 2008