Alphaville
Rialto Pictures | Release Date: October 25, 1965 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
92
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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100
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranApr 24, 2014
Alphaville is more than quintessential Godard. Despite its age it's that rare science fiction film that doesn't seem to have dated at all. Read full review
100
Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonFeb 4, 2014
Iconic in its very grain, the film toggles effortlessly between toast-dry farce and vogueing postwar hipitude, and like the balletic swimmers performing mid-pool state executions, it's a thing of insensible beauty. Read full review
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge Ebiri
Every decade or so, Godard’s film is revered all over again for everything it got right about the future. But for all its influence, Alphaville still looks and feels like no other movie. More than a prophecy, it is poetry. Read full review
100
The New York TimesJ. Hoberman
The “intellectual banalities” that bored Crowther are so insistently contemporary that “Alphaville” could have been made in 2023. If by some time-traveling Borgesian twist of fate it were, Godard’s film would have been my candidate for the year’s best. Read full review
91
Portland OregonianMarc MohanFeb 20, 2014
Despite the fact that its pace turns somnolent at times, and some of its themes feel somewhat clichéd nearly a half-century on, this revival offers a fantastic entry-point opportunity to one of cinema's singular figures. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller Seitz
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven't seen, Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 Alphaville is a combination film noir, social satire and riff on tough-guy movies, set in a world of nearly nonstop night. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
What it comes to is simply that the dazzle of Mr. Godard's cinematic style is not matched by the hackneyed idea of a robot society that is expounded in the script. Read full review
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