Vol. 137, no. 1 (2001) never published

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for re...

“Alien: The Director’s Cut” is an old nightmare, made shiny new. It’s a scream from another era that still echoes around us. Director Ridley Scott’...

Read the Empire Movie review of Alien. A fitting birthday tribute to a movie masterpiece. And on the big screen, the chestburster scene...

Clipping found in Fort Worth Star-Telegram published in Fort Worth, Texas on 5/30/1979. Alien

Clipping found in The Philadelphia Inquirer published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 5/25/1979. Alien

Clipping found in The Journal News published in White Plains, New York on 7/22/1979. Alien

Clipping found in The Los Angeles Times published in Los Angeles, California on 5/20/1979. Alien (1/2)

Clipping found in The Orlando Sentinel published in Orlando, Florida on 6/15/1979. Alien

Clipping found in St. Louis Post-Dispatch published in St. Louis, Missouri on 5/25/1979. Alien

Clipping found in Fort Worth Star-Telegram published in Fort Worth, Texas on 5/25/1979. Alien

Clipping found in Newsday (Suffolk Edition) published in Melville, New York on 6/3/1979. Alien

Clipping found in Chicago Tribune published in Chicago, Illinois on 5/25/1979. Alien

Clipping found in Detroit Free Press published in Detroit, Michigan on 5/27/1979. Alien

Clipping found in The Boston Globe published in Boston, Massachusetts on 5/25/1979. Alien

Clipping found in The Toronto Star published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 5/26/1979. Alien

Clipping found in The Arizona Republic published in Phoenix, Arizona on 5/28/1979. Alien

Clipping found in The Sydney Morning Herald published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 12/7/1979. Alien

Clipping found in The Age published in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 12/7/1979. Alien

ALIEN: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT [ 1/2] (three and one-half stars) One classy and cerebral horror movie. Running time: 119 minutes. Rated R (violence, gore). At t...

The NYS Historic Newspapers

Our film critics on blockbusters, independents and everything in between.

At its most fundamental level, "Alien" is a movie about things that can jump out of the dark and kill you. It shares a kinship with the shark in "Jaws,"

Plainly put, Alien is an old-fashioned scary movie set in a highly realistic sci-fi future, made all the more believable by expert technical craftmanship. Pi...