Alien: Romulus

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Alien: Romulus

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Released Aug 16, 2024

1h 59m

Sci-Fi

Horror

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While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

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Critics Consensus

Honoring its nightmarish predecessors while chestbursting at the seams with new frights of its own, Romulus injects some fresh acid blood into one of cinema's great horror franchises.

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Resurrecting a franchise with equal servings of fan service and originality, Alien: Romulus keenly delivers Xenomorph blood and thrills.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

I thought this was awesome... Yes, it plays the hits, but in a slightly different key. It's different enough for me to have had fun.

Sep 16, 2024

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Philip De Semlyen

Time Out

Every possible ingredient has surely been used, every angle exhausted. Major props, then, to Fede Álvarez for cooking up something fresh in this furiously exciting, gnarly seventh entry. He’s even found the eggs, too.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 11, 2024

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Stephen Kearse

The New Republic

You can see the gears turning in every scene, and feel the film dutifully avoiding, well, alienation, the unknown, the discomfiting.

Aug 30, 2024

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Maitland McDonagh

MaitlandOnMovies (Substack)

[S]ucceeds in striking a balance among fulfilling expectations, adding details to its miserable futurescape, landing solid shocks, doing fan service ... and delivering at least a couple of images we haven’t seen before.

Jan 20, 2025

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Michael Nordine

Movie Brief

What is new under this shrouded sun is a xenomorph variant that violently emerges in the third act and is as gloriously gnarly as any other creature birthed by the franchise.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 17, 2025

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David Hogan

hoganreviews.co.uk

Alien: Romulus is something of a greatest hits mixtape of a movie, taking some great set-pieces, visual iconography and character tropes from the original four movies and meshing them together in a very enjoyable, if not predictable, two-ish hours.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 13, 2025

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Jeremy

I really enjoyed this! this is my 2nd favorite out of the franchise!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/19/25

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Meccassault

If you're a diehard fan of the Alien franchise, you'll probably love it just because it does bring back vibes of the first two films. If you're not biased to that but a fan, like me, you'll probably have a similar view as I. The film has its characters that are dumb and annoying and make dumb decisions. The Xeno barely does anything as per usual. The main threats are actually the face huggers. it's basically the same thing we've seen every Alien film. The fact that (spoiler alert) a young girl who's inexperienced at fighting the Xeno somehow manages to easily wipe out most of them with a gun shes never used with auto aiming. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/10/25

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Ryan

Bad casting, bad story, bad pacing.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/05/25

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Crystal C

New life in a beloved franchise.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/01/25

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Cole

I saw Romulus 4 times in theaters and now that time has passed wish I could of went for a 5th

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/31/24

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alicia

THE BEST IN THE SERIES

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/29/24

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Synopsis

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Director: Fede Alvarez
Producer: Ridley Scott, Michael A. Pruss, Walter Hill
Screenwriter: Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues Mendez
Distributor: 20th Century Studios
Production Co: Scott Free Productions, Brandywine Productions
Rating: R (Language|Bloody Violent Content)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 16, 2024, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 15, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $105.3M
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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