Alien Reviews
Total Film
Look as hard as you like, you won't spot a single flaw, even though the film's had 24 years to date.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Cinema Sight
A perfect roller coaster blend of horror and science fiction. Sigourney Weaver was an amazing discovery.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Antagony & Ecstasy
In a century of sci-fi/horror hybrids, few if any movies do such a good job at reaching the absolute highest peaks of both halves of that equation as this one.
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| Original Score: 10/10
LarsenOnFilm
...a seminal feminist action flick.
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| Original Score: 4/4
2UE That Movie Show
Alien has power, elicits terror, and the acid blood scars your consciousness.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Top CriticThe most startling thing watching Alien again is its pacing. For the first 45 minutes, little happens. It's all slow, exquisite build-up, which makes the second half seem all the more horrific.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Film4
It remains a benchmark of extra-terrestrial horror, and gave us a bona fide A-list star in the shape of Sigourney Weaver.
FEARnet
My favorite film of all time is one of the finest blu-rays in my collection.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Combustible Celluloid
The monster itself is still one of the flat-out scariest ever designed for the movies.
IGN DVD
Ridley Scott's Alien is nothing short of a masterpiece. Technically brilliant, tense, horrifying and visually breathtaking, there's not a moment in this B-monster movie that doesn't excel well beyond the usual genre trappings.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Common Sense Media
Dated but still extremely scary. Not for younger kids.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ColeSmithey.com
Science fiction horror doesn't get any better than this.
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| Original Score: A+
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's a chilling, slow-paced, space horror movie using the same formula as the B-films of the 1950s.
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| Original Score: B-
Cinefantastique
Alien proved that material derided as B-movie fodder could be handled with finesse and glossy production values, without diminishing the thrills or polishing over the hard-edged horror.
Urban Cinefile
Better than most of today's big budget sci-fi/horror films.
Sacramento News & Review
It certainly doesn't look like a 24-year-old movie.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The limited strengths of its staple sci-fi horrors always derived from either the offhand organic/ Freudian resonances of its design or the purely (brilliantly) manipulative editing and pacing of its above-average shock quota.
An old-fashioned scary movie set in a highly realistic sci-fi future, made all the more believable by expert technical craftmanship.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
There's nothing terribly complex or original about the movie, but it is distinguished by its clever and innovative use of B-movie staples in a hi-tech setting.
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| Original Score: 4/4
EmanuelLevy.Com
This scary feature breathed new life into the horror genre, launching a length film franchise and introducing to audiences a major actress, Sigourney Weaver, in a tough role typically allotted to men.
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| Original Score: A-
