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Alien

Alien

1979

Ridley Scott

Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Yaphet Kotto, Tom Skerritt ...

8.0

124,343

Sci-Fi. Horror When commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby unexplored planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate. After a bad landing on the planet, some crew members leave the ship to explore the area. At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a call for help. When one of the eggs is ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"An empty-headed horror movie with nothing to recommend it beyond the disco-inspired art direction and some handsome, if gimmicky, cinematography (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"It's a scream from another era that still echoes around us. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	A few more ambitious and serious sci-fi films have also followed in the footsteps of 'Alien' (...) But the original still vibrates with a dark and frightening intensity (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"As this voyage continues, familiarity consumes the promise and leaves as residue the memory of some shrieks from shocks of a most mundane kind."	NEU
United States	Peter Hartlaub SFGATE	"A superior piece of filmmaking, with a pace that's like watching an art film when compared to the over-the-top space operas in recent years"	POS
United States	Variety	"An old-fashioned scary movie set in a highly realistic sci-fi future, made all the more believable by expert technical craftmanship"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"One classy and cerebral horror movie (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"You won't see anything very original anywhere in the film (...) It bases its appeal on a different set of values. Not very enlightening ones, no doubt. But exactly in tune with much more cynical times."	NEU
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"This revolutionary 'haunted house in space' thrill-ride is the classic business, stunning you with shock after shock, even when the fascinating monster is exposed in all its hideous glory (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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