Alpha
Neon | Release Date: March 27, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
9
Negative:
4

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The PlaylistElena LazicMay 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
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 26, 2026
Softer and gentler than either of its forbears, "Alpha" hums with a dreamlike unease, a movie less concerned with sensation than with genuine feeling. Read full review
90
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMar 24, 2026
A nervy, eye-popping reimagining of the AIDS crisis as filtered through the lens of a frenzied domestic drama, Julia Ducournau’s new film is, like the very best Cave song, a profoundly upsetting creation to sink into, equal parts blood-pumping passion and skin-crawling menace. Read full review
90
ColliderTherese LacsonMay 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
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeNov 13, 2025
Mind you, everyone here is suffering. That overbearing mass of existential angst almost certainly contributes to the many negative responses, but few will endure its attack without admitting they’ve sat through something out of the ordinary. Read full review
80
Little White LiesHannah StrongNov 13, 2025
Alpha is as thorny as her previous two features, but there’s something lonely and longing here too. Read full review
80
Paste MagazineRachel BarkerMay 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
80
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannMay 20, 2025
Some may find this despairing and baffling, but Ducournau finds a strange layer of hope and love beneath all the dust and grime. Read full review
80
TheWrapChase HutchinsonMay 19, 2025
As Alpha’s family becomes increasingly isolated, the film’s ambition widens. Though the rhythms of this can take some getting used to, the resulting emotional payoff is more than worth your patience. Read full review
78
PolygonJesse HassengerMar 31, 2026
Alpha is more of a horror-inflected drama than an outright genre piece, which allowed plenty of critics to fixate, not unfairly, on its failings as an AIDS metaphor. Yet the movie has resonance beyond simply recalling the years of its creator’s youth. Read full review
70
The RevealKeith PhippsMar 27, 2026
All the aspects of Alpha that work makes the film’s final stretch, which brings together the two timelines in a way that makes a lot more sense symbolically than logistically, that much more unfortunate, but no less of a worthwhile effort from a director who understands that shock and horror can sometimes clear space for understanding and empathy. Read full review
70
Screen DailyLee MarshallMay 19, 2025
There’s a nicely intimate side to Ducornau’s urge to dig beneath the flesh here, a ‘soft body horror’ simulacrum of the hormonal changes this adolescent girl is going through. Read full review
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