Marc Lee
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jul 16, 2026
It lacks the frequent surprises of Alien, but it is just as visceral, and ultimately, more disturbing.
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Dennis Lim
Independent on Sunday
Jul 16, 2026
The movie isn't especially exciting (or coherent) and, in all honest, it's a bit of an eye-sore.
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Bernard Zuel
Sydney Morning Herald
Apr 29, 2026
The plot lines are way too familiar and the ending is merely an invitation for Alien 5.
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Trace Thurman
Horror Queers Podcast
Apr 29, 2025
3.5/5
You've got to give Alien Resurrection some credit: it takes some big swings.
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Joe Lipsett
Horror Queers Podcast
Apr 23, 2025
3.5/5
Too weird, wet and horny to be widely accepted, Alien Resurrection nevertheless captures Jeunet's unique stuff, Whedon's trademark quips, and brings its own flavour to the Alien franchise
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Stephen A. Russell
Orion's Shoulder (Substack)
Mar 6, 2025
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s otherwise truly pathetic crash and burn of the xenomorph-driven franchise.
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Casey Chong
Casey's Movie Mania
Aug 15, 2024
2.5/5
[A] missed opportunity.
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Marshall Fine
Journal News (Westchester, NY)
Aug 7, 2024
3.5/4
Let's see: It's a big improvement over No. 3, not as good as No. 2 but on a par with or slightly better than No. 1. Anything else you want to know about Alien Resurrection?
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David Hunter
The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 7, 2024
Alien Resurrection checks in with enough slime, gore and scary monster-flick moments to satisfy undemanding audiences. But it's an ugly, animated corpse of a movie stitched together from the other three films in the series.
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Jay Carr
Boston Globe
Aug 7, 2024
[A] cold but sufficiently nightmarish and high-powered proof that there's life in the old franchise yet.
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Bob Stephens
San Francisco Examiner
Aug 7, 2024
3/4
A wonderfully contradictory film -- it's trashy, brutal, viciously ironic and highly imaginative.
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Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
Aug 7, 2024
The sardonic bits work, but there's none of the old grandeur and depth, and not much horror either. The smell of evil is missing.
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Chris Hewitt
Knight Ridder News Service
Aug 7, 2024
3/4
The fourth in the Alien series is the slimiest, the funniest and the most perverse -- which is to say, bring it on!
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Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
Aug 7, 2024
Alien Resurrection displays flashes of glum beauty, scary power and carefully titrated humor before the whole grisly thing turns to gibberish... It's time for Ripley to retire.
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Dave Kehr
New York Daily News
Aug 7, 2024
2/4
The sense of mystery and anticipation that defined Ridley Scott's original Alien here dissolves into a series of more or less overt encounters with no more poetry or suspense than an evening of professional wrestling.
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Germain Lussier
io9.com
Aug 7, 2024
Alien Resurrection is just so wild, entertaining, and ambitious compared to Alien 3, and the subsequent sequels, I have to applaud it...
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Bob Fenster
Arizona Republic
Aug 7, 2024
4/5
Jeunet has created a striking behemoth of a spaceship, a dark, menacing machine that is ripping at the seams with the throbbing of deadly biology.
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Gary Wolcott
Tri-City Herald
Aug 7, 2024
3.5/5
It's not the beast that makes Alien Resurrection an interesting movie. It's Weaver and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's penchant for offering up movies that are a visual feast.
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David Denby
New York Magazine/Vulture
Aug 7, 2024
Welcome to the movies of the late nineties: rage without purpose, threat without meaning, horror without relief.
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Alexander Walker
London Evening Standard
Aug 7, 2024
The trick is to clad the bare bones of this Freudian scarefest with the fleshly encrustations of the Bosch-like hell inside the spaceship where all of it happens. A good choice of interior decorator is Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
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