Aline is a biopic freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion that’s, in most cases, on the brink of becoming an intentional farce.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 24, 2024

Aline is the Goldschläger of musical biopics: unappetizing and decadent in all the wrong ways, but too absurd to not sample once.

| Dec 16, 2022

Aline is a conundrum and a contradiction. More than any other recent biopic, Aline soldiers through all of the cliches and plot devices we’ve seen repeated ad nauseum. Yet, there’s a bizarre core that spins every scene on the axis.

| Original Score: C | Nov 28, 2022

A film of questionable quality, full of inexplicable creative decisions, that is in such a hurry to tell so many things in a limited time, that it never gets to delve into the psychology of its main character. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 22, 2022

Aline is less of a Céline Dion tribute and more of a mishandled vanity project from director/writer/star Valérie Lemercier. Very few middle-aged people can convincingly depict a pre-teen child on camera. Unfortunately, Lemercier is not one of them.

| May 16, 2022

The current The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is better about fame, and certainly more entertaining.

| Apr 27, 2022

A masterpiece? No. A Céline Dion biopic? Sort of. A vision you could never anticipate and may never see again? Completely.

| Apr 25, 2022

Like all good ghosts, Aline gains depth by what it doesnt say and, in this curious case, whats forbidden to say.

| Apr 24, 2022

There are no insights here, only lavishly budgeted cosplay.

| Apr 21, 2022

Despite some wonky CGI, this "fictional biopic" about singer Celine Dion is an engaging tribute that mostly hits the right notes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2022

Initially strange, then mildly amusing, and eventually just kind of whatever, Francophone musical success story Aline is the very definition of neither one thing nor the other.

| Apr 19, 2022

It eventually becomes the standard biopic.

| Apr 19, 2022

There's a lot of affection in this portrayal... I wish it had stuck with the strength of its initial weird convictions throughout, though.

| Apr 19, 2022

Lemerciers performance shows how completely she embraces Celine Dion, as a performer and an icon.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2022

Aline tries to have its cake and eat it, waving off assertions of its biopic origins, yet formulaically behaving like one.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 16, 2022

The weirdest thing about "Aline" is how ordinary and tame it is, a fawning biopic that has no perspective or insight on its subject other than that CelineAline is really great.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2022

A tender portrait of a superstar...in its very peculiarity, it emphasizes the freakishness of outsize talent and fame, and calls attention to the folly, the ludicrousness of the biopic itselfof trying to make coherent a life that is far from ordinary.

| Apr 15, 2022

Its shocking stuff and quite hilarious to just laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. I dont think thats what Valerie Lemercier had in mind. But thats the way it is.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2022

The shot-for-shot life of Celine Dion is done with a strange exactness that kept me wondering after I got over the 12-year old version of Lemercier why the pop star refused her support for the movie.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 15, 2022

The whole name thing is just a below-the-line technicality in relation to the grand weirdness Lemercier serves up in paying tribute to the French-Canadian pop goddess.

| Original Score: C | Apr 14, 2022