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Alien: Romulus Reviews
I thought this was awesome... Yes, it plays the hits, but in a slightly different key. It's different enough for me to have had fun.
| Sep 16, 2024
Every possible ingredient has surely been used, every angle exhausted. Major props, then, to Fede Álvarez for cooking up something fresh in this furiously exciting, gnarly seventh entry. He’s even found the eggs, too.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2024
You can see the gears turning in every scene, and feel the film dutifully avoiding, well, alienation, the unknown, the discomfiting.
| Aug 30, 2024
Constantly impresses with its prodigious use of cinematic language, its striking soundtrack, its overwhelming sound work, [and] its meticulous production design. [Full review in Spanish]
| Aug 29, 2024
An engaging, generic horror/sci-fi/thriller. That’s an observation. Not an accomplishment.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 23, 2024
The film boasts some rock solid Alien scares and Cailee Spaeny & David Jonsson make for a winning lead combo, but Alien: Romulus caves under franchise connectivity pressure.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 23, 2024
It’s not a new message – but it is powerfully delivered in this compelling addition to the Alien series.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2024
Between its sleek production design, dynamic editing, and nicely modulated ensemble cast, Romulus has the feeling of a quality-controlled multiplex product. The problem is that it rarely feels like anything more than that.
| Aug 21, 2024
A solid, entertaining Alien film.
| Aug 20, 2024
The taut set pieces are so dynamic, the tension so stickily uncomfortable, the sound design so jarring and full of screaming metal, that you barely notice that the connective tissue between the action scenes strains to hold them together.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2024
“Alien” movies are like pizza, and aside from a few head-scratching choices that will no doubt inspire reams of think pieces, “Alien: Romulus,” with its thrilling tactility and appealingly plucky cast, is a very enjoyable pie.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2024
It makes for a decent time at the pictures, and the grinding first half is worth enduring for a pleasantly rip-snorting finale.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2024
Imperfect though "Romulus" may be, it’s also a solid entry in a slate of films whose original maker has taken the extended story seriously enough to petrify it. Álvarez returns us to the simple sweatiness and anxiety that made "Alien" magnificent
| Aug 16, 2024
An efficient and reasonably entertaining thriller that, like a lot of franchise movies nowadays, traffics more in nostalgia than novelty.
| Aug 16, 2024
Alien: Romulus really shines when it plays like a straightforward Alien movie -- and doesn’t pander to the demands of franchisable intellectual property. There’s yucky pleasure to be had in watching these young people flounder.
| Aug 16, 2024
Expect jump shocks and armrest clutching, and the gnarliest alien expensive CGI can offer, in this visually stunning match made for IMAX, regular theaters and communal screams.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2024
Alien: Romulus is diverting enough, but it’s also instantly forgettable — something I don’t think I’ve ever said about any other Alien film, good or bad.
| Aug 16, 2024
While incredible practical gore effects and stunning set pieces make Álvarez’s installment well worth watching, it’s as void of meaning as space itself.
| Original Score: C+ | Aug 16, 2024
This being a movie about scavengers trying to pick through remnants from the first Alien movie is a great metaphor for what Alien: Romulus is up to.
| Aug 16, 2024