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Alpha
Directed by
Julia Ducournau
R
2026
2h 8m
Drama
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Horror
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5.9
58%
6.4
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Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day Alpha returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
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Cast of Alpha
Mélissa Boros
Alpha
Tahar Rahim
Amin
Golshifteh Farahani
Mother
Emma Mackey
Nurse
Finnegan Oldfield
English Teacher
Louai El Amrousy
Adrien
Ambrine Trigo Ouaked
Young Alpha
Zohra Benbetka
Grandmother
Fadila Belkebla
Alpha's Aunt 1
Sofia Nait
Alpha's Aunt 2
Bahia Badji
Alpha's Aunt 3
Marc Riso
Benny
Jean-Charles Clichet
PE Teacher
François Rollin
Principal
Driver
Security Officer
Frédéric Bayer Azem
English Teacher's Assistant
Ninon Le Henry
Girl Classmate
Elyna Motte
Girl Classmate
Nina Bouffier
Adrien's Girlfriend
Ilyane Badji
Boy Classmate
Alpha Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
This movie is terrible and a huge letdown.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Tim Cogshell
What this movie has going for it are good performances -- deeply, deeply moving performances.
InSession Film
JD Duran
Obviously working as an HIV allegory, however I think you could argue that needles/disease is just a conduit for what it's really about in terms of that panic and suffocating anxiety you feel you're deathly afraid of getting sick.
Decider
John Serba
Alpha is ambitious, but still a disappointment.
Polygon
Jesse Hassenger
Unlike so many horror filmmakers, Ducourneau doesn't seem fixated on inherited trauma, so much as the ongoing trauma of living in an imperfect world with a deeply fallible body.
Chicago Reader
Joey Shapiro
Even if the pieces that make up Alpha never quite fit together, it's still extraordinary on a scene-by-scene basis.
Girl, That's Scary (Podcast)
Jazzmin Crawley
Alpha is beautifully shot with great dialogue, however when time and reality unravel the film becomes a bit difficult to follow.
Los Angeles Times
Tim Grierson
As "Alpha" reaches its stylish, dreamlike ending, she hits upon an absorbing final image that suggests the collective sorrow and emotional devastation our recent plague years have wrought.
RogerEbert.com
Katie Rife
At times, 'Alpha' plays like a Cronenbergian after-school special, in which the visual metaphors are overplayed, and the drama is broadly sketched to teach a moral lesson.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Softer and gentler than either of its forbears, "Alpha" hums with a dreamlike unease, a movie less concerned with sensation than with genuine feeling.
The Reveal
Keith Phipps
Alpha is Ducournau's most restrained film, one short on some of the stylistic bravado of her previous work. But there's a studied intimacy that mostly works as an effective substitute.
Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
Mark Kermode
I thought it was strangely beautiful.
AV Club
Tomris Laffly
An inexplicably shallow AIDS allegory.
The New Yorker
Justin Chang
A repetitive, unattractive, and finally unrewarding slog, in which Ducournau's filmmaking verve itself seems to harden into lifelessness.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
. 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.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
"Alpha" has a few striking visuals, but they're in service of a movie that runs out of ideas and things to say before it's even close to half over, forcing viewers to suffer the rest of this misfire in a sort of numb daze.
TheWrap
Chase Hutchinson
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.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
You've got to give Ducournau credit for refusing to settle down or take the Hollywood route after winning the Palme, but you also have to wonder if her latest feature will please anyone but her.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
The maddening frustration of [Julia Ducournau's] first unambiguous misfire -- which is worse than bad because it could have been good -- is that it feels so much, but conveys so little.
Variety
Peter Debruge
It's painful to watch such talents pour so much into roles that are fairly common, if not clichéd by American indie standards.
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