Alien: Romulus

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.

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.

You can see the gears turning in every scene, and feel the film dutifully avoiding, well, alienation, the unknown, the discomfiting.

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]

An engaging, generic horror/sci-fi/thriller. That’s an observation. Not an accomplishment.

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.

Seven films into this franchise, Alien: Romulus manages to be both terrifying and comforting&#59; the audience revisiting their haunted childhood home, relieved to be tucked up in their old bed even if it does levitate.

We care so much about [Spaeny and Jonsson] that we almost forget the obvious threads to this film’s predecessors that won’t stop popping up. Stop strangling good ideas to expand your IP with the constraints of needless IP familiarity.

Spaeny as Rain and [David] Jonsson as Andy are the two clear standouts in this movie... the two are given the most fleshed-out characters, and they have great chemistry together as Andy changes during the movie.

Fede Alvarez revives the franchise in this taut, moody, and terrifying thriller with standout work from Cailee Spaeney and David Jonsson. Alvarez evokes the best (and most insane) parts of the Alien movies while carving out his own corner of the universe.