Alpha

What happens to you happens to me.  Ducournau trusts so much on such a risky dramatic fulcrum here that the insane rating curve isn’t super surprising, but lol. Definitely her boldest project yet in terms of what she’s asking from the audience, the apocalyptic AIDS…

Sydney🚀

completely get why this isn't hitting with everybody. not only do you walk into this expecting Raw or Titane and get a fairly-grounded drama without any body horror to speak of, but there's a creative choice here that eluded me for so long i thought it was a twist by the…

demi adejuyigbe

Alpha wann n’apparaît pas dans le film

Theorus_

some absolute batshit choices here you can’t not respect following up titane with a tame impala needle drop

Jay

tough watch

Karsten

Julia Ducournau has insisted that genre “imposed a distance” on her first two features, but to watch her third — the dour and dismal “Alpha,” which eschews the more legible body horror of her earlier work in favor of a comparatively grounded AIDS allegory — is to appreciate…

davidehrlich

“A dream within a dream.”  Overwhelmingly mournful. Ducournau’s boldest and most challenging work. So much sand to sift through. So much that you want to clasp in your hands but it’s so granular it slips through and disappears in the wind. I loved it.

claira curtis

felt like a full body scream radiating with anguish, vocal chords crackling with fear. letting loose a desperate howl of pent up grief with nowhere left to go. this is so emotionally dense, dabbling less in body horror and more in the restless daily terror of disease,…

Lucy

thirteen is a bloody mess of a time to be a girl shouldering the blame of a public health crisis, but there it is. mélissa boros, with her piercing gaze + quiet intensity, is a dam about to burst. i was hooked on the visuals – marble bodies bleeding sand, apocalyptic dust…

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