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Film critic Peter Travers shares his review of "Alien: Romulus."

Alien: Romulus touts squirm-inducing scares and expansive franchise knowledge, but struggles to bring new life to the series.

Since the first two films in the 1980s, the sci-fi horror series has been a very mixed bag. But this latest gets back to basics, and makes for a superbly sca...

Director Fede Alvarez relies too much on fan service, but still delivers the best "Alien" film since "Aliens."

The result is a film that has a cool and retro and kind of 1980s vision of the future that feels authentic to the timeline.

Taking place between the events of “Alien” and “Aliens,” sometime around 2150, director/co-writer Fede Alvarez’s “Alien: Romulus” delivers.

A well-used express elevator to hell, courtesy of Don't Breathe director Fede Alvarez.

Alien: Romulus starts off with such high potential, but its big swings feel like flails.

Fede Alvarez directs the latest instalment in the Alien franchise. Read the Empire review now.

'Alien: Romulus,' directed by Fede Álvarez and starring Cailee Spaeny, is the best addition to the franchise in years.

David Jonsson, Archie Renaux and Isabela Merced also star in Fede Alvarez’s sci-fi/horror installment, set between the events of Ridley Scott’s original ...

There is so much greatness here that it becomes all the more frustrating when this franchise reboot becomes a vehicle for illogical plotting and pointless no...

Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson are the best parts of an "Alien" movie that's grotesque in all the wrong ways.

The ninth film set in this universe returns to the haunted-house-in-space aesthetic that Ridley Scott first unveiled 45 years ago

Larry and LAist film critics Manuel Betancourt and Christy Lemire review the latest releases on FilmWeek.

Seemingly designed to settle the debate over whether the Alien films count as horror...

Led by an empathetic Cailee Spaeny in action-hero mode, the new sequel owes more to Ridley Scott's 1979 original than to other installments — for good and ...

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"Alien: Romulus" is the most purely frightening "Alien" movie in nearly 40 years; a vision of what the franchise can achieve when in the right hands.

The Xenomorphs are allowed to run amok once more in this passable franchise offshoot.

The latest installment lacks the imaginative strangeness of the earlier films.

Hold onto your spacehats

The latest installment of the "Alien" series is an efficient and reasonably entertaining thriller. But dwelling too obsessively on the past won't guarantee a...

Álvarez’s gripping film, which is set in between the first two movies, goes back to the franchise’s basics — isolation, paranoia, survival and tactile...

The seventh installment of the series centers on Rain (Cailee Spaeny), a contract worker in an outer-space mining colony, and her friend Andy (David Jonsson)...

‘Alien: Romulus’ is a slasher movie in space that trades the creeping dread of the original for more shock, gore and fist-pumping violence.

Álvarez’s sequel to 1979’s Alien is the ‘Rogue One’ of the franchise

(Contains spoilers about a certain cameo.)A case could be made that Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulusis the third-best film of the nine movies to feature the i...

It’s fun, tense, and slimy. It’s also nowhere near as ambitious as some of the films in this series deemed failures. We can’t have everything.

Latest entry in the horror/sci-fi franchise uses the 1979 classic as a back-to-basics touchstone — and ends up being just an overly reverent tribute.

The latest ‘Alien’ movie is well made, but very familiar.

Cailee Spaeny picks up the cudgel in this efficient, derivative addition to the Alien franchise

Alien: Romulus is well-made and even occasionally scary, but too much of the movie feels devoted to referencing what came before. Here's our review.

"Alien: Romulus" hits some recognizable beats, but the pleasures of its central concept remain undiminished.

The latest in the “Alien” franchise finds new ways to scare and unsettle while staying true to the monstrous original movies. Another win for the series.

Alien has been Disney-fied. It hasn't been softened or sanitized for a younger audience. It has instead been tweaked and studio-noted to mollify executives, ...

Fede Alvarez returns to the well of the original 1979 Ridley Scott hit while adding a few space-screams of his own.

Fede Álvarez isn’t developing this cinematic universe so much as he is stunting its growth

Fede Álvarez breathe new life into the 'Alien' franchise with the terrifying and entertaining 'Alien: Romulus.'

Cailee Spaeny stars in director Fede Alvarez's new film "Alien: Romulus," which takes place between the events of "Alien" and "Alien."

Director Fede Alvarez's "Alien: Romulus" unleashes familiar franchise foes like Facehuggers and Chestbursters while embracing new youthful swagger.

In space, no one can hear your IP creaking.

Cailee Spaeny stars in the seventh entry in the franchise, directed by Fede Álvarez as a nerve-jangling greatest-hits throwback. It works.

It’s a movie engineered mostly to provide basic genre thrills and keep the IP alive so the now-Disney-owned Fox can generate more Alien movies.

Does Fede Álvarez manages to breath new life into the 'Alien' universe as he did with 'Evil Dead?'