Alpha

Name: Alpha
Genre: Drama
Released: March 27, 2026
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 56

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Neon | Release Date: March 27, 2026 | Not Rated

Summary: Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 128 min

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The Playlist Elena Lazic

May 20, 2025

Through its complex structure, formed of different timelines and split realities, uncanny dreams and blurred memories, “Alpha” viscerally teases out the binds of love and trauma. Read full review

Collider Therese Lacson

May 19, 2025

Ducournau's story is brilliant, but without the leading actors of the film, the movie wouldn't have been nearly as impressive. Read full review

Rachel Barker

May 22, 2025

The obsession of Alpha’s mother with her daughter’s health is never played for shock, but presented with conflict both internal and external, a trial encountered as a result of genuine love. Read full review

Empire Sophie Butcher

Nov 13, 2025

It doesn’t hit the heights of Raw and Titane, but strong performances and the moving familial drama mean Julia Ducournau’s third feature is still an impactful watch. Read full review

Alison Willmore

May 21, 2025

Alpha is more evidence of Ducournau’s genius for evocative imagery and striking compositions, but it also suggests she’d benefit from boundaries to push against. Read full review

The Independent Geoffrey Macnab

May 22, 2025

Alpha has some tremendous moments, but the movie is undermined by its own dense and impenetrable storytelling style. It would surely have worked far better as an immersive installation piece than as a two hour feature. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 19, 2025

The madly, bafflingly overwrought and humourless storytelling can’t overcome the fact that everything here is frankly unpersuasive and tedious. Every line, every scene, has the emoting dial turned up to 11 and yet feels redundant. Read full review

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