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‘Alpha’ Review: 2021 Palme d’Or Winner Julia Ducournau’s AIDS-Era Horror Parable Is Arrestingly Original and Numbingly Over-the-Top
The newest film from the 'Titane' director is a gory period piece exploring a teenage girl’s coming of age during a deadly ...
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‘Alpha’ is a Hollow Body Horror Misuse of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic [Cannes 2025 Review]
Despite some striking visuals, 'Alpha' misfires with a shallow narrative that fails to meaningfully engage with its subject ...
'Alpha' Review: Julia Ducournau's Mournful Horror Drama Cuts Through Body and Soul
The term "body horror" is one that carries with it a lot of expectations. If you were to hear it at last year's Cannes, it ...
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‘Alpha’ Review: Love Is Trauma In Julia Ducournau’s Viscerally Affecting, Heartbreaking Palme D’Or Contender [Cannes]
French filmmaker Julia Ducournau's 'Alpha' starring Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim viscerally teases out the binds of love and trauma.
Alpha may have inspired walkouts at Cannes – but they were out of boredom rather than disgust
The time frame continually shifts. Without providing any context, the plot will whisk us back to when Alpha was a young child ...
Cannes Film Festival 2025: Read All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is past its midpoint after Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin serving ...
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