It's the intent of this moving film to capture something that for obvious reasons is rarely attempted in memoir or movie, i.e., the experience of the deadly disease from the perspective of the sufferer rather than the caregivers.

| Feb 15, 2017

The subject matter may be tough, and the end-point inevitable, but the message we take away is defiant and ultimately uplifting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2015

Writer-directors Glatzer and Westmoreland have written a rich, multi-layered screenplay that works equally well as family melodrama and as a meditation on language, identity and mortality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2015

While Moore has deserved an Academy Award for years... the surprise is Stewart, who has left the twilight zone and burst forth as a creature of brutal honesty on screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2015

The material hasn't been properly reimagined for cinema.

| Mar 6, 2015

The reality of Alzheimer's may be even harsher than its presentation here but that would surely make a film that would only dismay its viewers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2015

Still Alice is unquestionably well researched and sincere in its intentions, but at times it feels a little schematic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2015

Moore's own face starts to become as bare a cupboard as her mind. It's more than the no-make-up look. First, lines of doubt and fear map her face. Then starts to come a blankness like infantilism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2015

Julianne Moore gives the performance of her career (no mean feat, given the strength of her previous work) in this heartbreaking yet life-affirming tale of a woman determined to hold onto her identity while under attack from a debilitating mental disease.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 5, 2015

An absorbing portrait of one woman's interior landscape.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2015

This is an affecting and thoroughly worthwhile film on a very contemporary topic - with some Larkinian reflections on what will and won't survive of us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2015

When she wins the Academy Award, I'm just going to pretend it was for Todd Haynes' 1995 masterpiece, Safe, and leave it at that.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 12, 2015

This is not an easy film to watch but it's relevant, courageous and full of grace.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2015

While it's no surprise that Moore is so good, "Still Alice" has an unexpected trick up its sleeve: the sweetly gentle performance of Kristen Stewart, as Alice's actress daughter Lydia.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 29, 2015

A modest drama, but Moore's heart-wrenching and Oscar-nominated performance makes this a must-see.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2015

It's a heartbreaking performance by Moore, who never forgets she's portraying a woman whose professional success has been built on intellectual rigour and self-discipline.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2015

Sorrow-laden and moving, Still Alice isn't gratuitously grim nor is it easily sentimental. There's humor here -- vaguely gallows-like, perhaps but also earned.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 23, 2015

The great strength of the film is that it never resorts to cheap sentimentality. The facts themselves are hard enough, crushing enough.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 23, 2015

Still Alice is accurate and compassionate, and anyone who has known someone with Alzheimer's will appreciate the film's sincere intentions.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 23, 2015

Don't be surprised to find yourself suddenly obsessed with forgotten names and misplaced keys.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 22, 2015