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Still Alice

2014

Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland

Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth ...

6.8

13,348

Drama Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Julianne Moore guides us through the tragic arc of how it must feel to disappear before one’s own eyes, accomplishing one of her most powerful performances."	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"This milestone film on Alzheimer’s draws its power from Moore’s emotionally restrained but very potent central performance."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	Losing your mind is a terrible thing to watch, but the splendid acting in "Still Alice" makes it worth the pain.	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"You won’t see a better performance by an actress on film this year than Julianne Moore (...) Don’t miss it (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"While other Alzheimer's-related films, including Amour, Iris and Away from Her, delved more deeply into the subject, Alice is understated yet still moving (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"Hampered by both an unimaginative script and ordinary direction, but it’s a serious Oscar contender. Why? Because Julianne Moore is in the lead (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Extremely moving (...) ['Still Alice'] will mean a lot to a lot of people – not just anyone whose life Alzheimer’s has affected, but anyone whom it could affect (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Catherine Shoard The Guardian	"For all its strengths, Still Alice belittles the real-life tragedy of Alzheimer’s (...) the film fuels the myth that the disease is only tragic when sufferers are young"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich Time Out	"The rare film possessed with the courage required to shine a light into that abyss knowing full well that down is the only way out (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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