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As a crash course in New German Cinema, this is tough to beat.
80
It is an intriguing movie that lives in the mind for hours after the lights have come up.
80
With this film, Wenders crystallized his style of existential sentimentality. His cool eye for urbanism and design blends a love of kitsch with a hatred for commercialism, historicism with a fear of history’s ghosts.
80
There are points when the director allows his voice to ring a little loudly from behind the camera, but the richness and depth of both the photography and the characterisation manage to brush any signs of preachiness and sentimentality from view.
80
Yella Rottlander is unforgettable as Alice. [06 Jan 2008, p.16]
75
What makes Alice in the Cities so noteworthy is the tender, lifelike rapport cultivated between Vogler and Rottländer.
75
An ancestor of director Wenders's 1984 film Paris, Texas.
75
There is a timelessness to its explorations that makes it as rich and resonant today as when it was first released.
60
Hardly must-see Wenders, but for fans of his road movies, it remains a treat.
