Alien
critic Reviews
, 93% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- A modern classic, Alien blends science fiction, horror and bleak poetry into a seamless whole.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJack KrollNewsweek
Alien will scare the peanuts right out of your M&M's. It was about time someone made a science-fiction thriller that thrills... and just boils everything down to the pure, ravishingly vulgar essence of fright.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreElston BrooksFort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
You can have Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001. I'll take Alien.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDesmond RyanPhiladelphia Inquirer
Miss Weaver, a New York actress making her film debut, makes the most of the opportunity without overdoing it. She suggests toughness and fear in equal measure.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScorePeter TraversGannett Westchester Rockland Newspapers
The most intriguing aspect of the film is actress Sigourney Weaver, who cuts quite an imposing figure as the one intelligent member of the ship's crew besides the monster.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreDavid DenbyNew York Magazine/Vulture
Alien, like the Exorcist, works on your nerves and emotions with the practiced hand of a torturer extracting a confession. The movie is terrifying, but not in a way that is remotely enjoyable.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCharles ChamplinLos Angeles Times
You are in for jolts, shocks and some fairly gruesome and shuddering sights. With only his second feature, Ridley Scott has emerged as a major film maker. What he has to say is still not clear, but he certainly knows how to say it effectively.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMark HughesForbes
The beauty, the scale, and the artistic vision Scott brings to Alien go beyond filmmaking and into the ambitious realm of myth-making that burned a permanent, glorious scar on the memory and psyche of the world.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCasey ChongCasey's Movie Mania
Still a masterpiece of slow-burning dread and terror.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDon ShanahanCinephile Hissy Fit Podcast
Simply one of the best at being terrifying with the random unknown disconnected from any necessary lore.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMichael VenturaL.A. Weekly
This thing scared the shit out of me. Alien's a masterpiece of fright.
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