There are no insights here, only lavishly budgeted cosplay.

| Apr 21, 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

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

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

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

Long after Aline loses its creative heart, it still goes on and on.

| Apr 12, 2022

The supporting cast’s performances are vigorous and tangy, but the film's main distinction is Lemercier’s idiosyncratic decision to play Aline at every age; the movie fortunately never shakes that sense of homemade peculiarity.

| Apr 11, 2022

Like Dion herself, Aline is artistically serious without taking itself too seriously. It’s goofy, a little offbeat, and entirely one of a kind.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 8, 2022

Watch it sincerely or as a curiosity; at least you know you won't forget it.

| Original Score: B | Apr 8, 2022

As wacky, inadvertently hilarious and charming as the woman herself. It's pure camp, and it wears its heart on its sleeve.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 8, 2022

As biopics go, setting aside the Uncanny Valley, Aline is fairly innocuous, and it makes all the same mistakes most biopics make.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 8, 2022

For all these bold and frankly bizarre choices that Lemercier makes as a screenwriter, director, and leading lady, Aline lacks the verve of the real thing.

| Apr 8, 2022

What starts as one of those rare, unplaceable, maybe-satire, maybe-camp, high-wire pop confections morphs into a fairly straightforward biopic about a beloved superstar that seems overly wary of pissing off a living idol.

| Apr 7, 2022

It evokes the disorientation of discovering the singer as she was on her first album: a 13-year-old with snaggleteeth. The movies passion is incredible but, boy, is it embodied in something awkward.

| Original Score: C | Apr 7, 2022

For all the ways “Aline” is a head-scratcher, it’s got a kooky sincerity about talent, fame, trust and love.

| Apr 7, 2022

It fills up the uncharted territory between parody and pure fan service with a guileless weirdness that the biopic genre never knew it could accommodate but, in a postWalk Hard world, could stand to emulate.

| Apr 6, 2022

Valérie Lemerciers film feels at once like a vanity project for its maker and a glorified fan tribute.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 6, 2022

Kudos to Lemercier for trying something … different. Whether that something works depends on your ability to refrain from doubling over with laughter in the first hour or so of the movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 6, 2022

Though director and star Valérie Lemercier treats her subject with absolute reverence, the film itself lacks the poignancy and effortless virtuosity that the real Dion possesses in spades.

| Apr 4, 2022

Even now, I still can’t believe I have seen it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 1, 2022