Alpha

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Alpha

Mar 2026,

2h 2m,

Drama

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Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

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Strong performances and a visually striking finale notwithstanding, Alpha ultimately frustrates with its unwieldy structure and imbalanced blend of fantastical and realistic elements.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

May 7, 2026

This movie is terrible and a huge letdown.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

May 7, 2026

What this movie has going for it are good performances -- deeply, deeply moving performances.

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Joey Shapiro

Chicago Reader

Apr 13, 2026

Even if the pieces that make up Alpha never quite fit together, it’s still extraordinary on a scene-by-scene basis.

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Mauricio Jarufe Caballero

Cinencuentro

Oct 14, 2026

Ducournau makes a kind of sensitive and embodied cinema, insofar as the mise-en-scène is twisted to evoke the bodily experiences of her female protagonists. [Full review in Spanish]

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Clement Tyler Obropta

Ithaca Times

Aug 25, 2026

Using the AIDS allegory as a backdrop for its young heroine’s coming of age, Alpha feels both misguided and intellectually lazy.

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Jordan Ruimy

World of Reel

Aug 14, 2026

C

"Alpha" deeply suffers from its own ambition. There are so many ideas—so many great ideas—that they blur into noise. The film doesn’t so much explore them as toss them into a blender.

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Synopsis

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Director: Julia Ducournau
Producer: Éric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer
Screenwriter: Julia Ducournau
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: Mandarin et Compagnie, Kallouche Cinéma, Frakas Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 13, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 2h 2m

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