Alexander: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 200 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

34

Everything we're told about Alexander remains an abstraction, an index-card idea for a character pasted onto Farrell's less-than-mythic presence.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

40

Puerile writing, confused plotting and shockingly off-note performances make Oliver Stone's epic film a disappointment.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

38

This is Stone's weakest movie of the past 20 years, and it's unlikely to make any kind of blip.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

It's boring here and exciting there. And it's almost always goofy.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

Alexander, as expressed through the weepy histrionics of Colin Farrell, is more like a desperate housewife than a soldier.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

Alexander is pulled in so many directions that both Farrell's performance and the character are stretched thin.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

Stone seems to identify with the slaughterer general, in whatever era he's in.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

Farrell plays all this as if he means it, but he seems slight in the role and without great physical presence.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

50

Stone's failures with this film are largely honorable, but occasionally he miscalculates and strikes so badly off-key that he seems tone deaf.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

42

Alexander has aspirations of greatness, hoping to be christened an intellectual super-spectacle for brainy moviegoers. The sad truth is that it will probably numb more brain cells than it will stimulate.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

50

Visually dramatic but persistently tepid, Alexander doesn't make a convincing argument for its extravagant resources.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Logan Hill New York Magazine (Top Critic)

Stone rises to his own challenge.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Anthony Lane New Yorker (Top Critic)

Sluggish, unsmiling, and almost as limp as the feather fans with which our heroes are gently aerated on their trip to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

An ambitious and sincere film that fails to find a focus for its elusive subject.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

88

Even if it doesn't conquer its world, Stone's Alexander is worth the battle. Like JFK and Fourth of July, it hot-wires history and politics into a wild, memorable, breathtaking ride.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

25

So misconceived, so shrill, so fetishy is Oliver Stone's epic, so unintentionally hilarious a stew of paganism and Freudianism, that it makes Conan the Barbarian look like Gladiator.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

63

This movie does everything to the max.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

9

This is a movie almost totally devoid of feeling or any sense of connection.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

30

I respect Stone as a filmmaker, but this movie is punishment rather than entertainment.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

A lunk-headed train wreck that looks like a tag sale in a 323 B.C. supermarket in old Peking.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

At a reported cost of $155 million, Alexander qualifies as a super-spectacle in every respect but one -- namely in its neurotic, confused and sexually ambidextrous hero.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

An intelligent and ambitious picture that crucially lacks dramatic flair and emotional involvement.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

38

As huge a travesty and a bore as 1956's Alexander the Great, in which Richard Burton looked equally uncomfortable as a blond.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

Stone and his team of screenwriters paint an incomplete picture of the man and those he led.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

20

Not just a bad movie but a bad movie of truly epic proportions.
Full Review » 8 years ago