Releasing on Mar 27, 2026
SummaryAlpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Directed By:Julia Ducournau
Written By:Julia Ducournau
Alpha
Metascore
Mixed or Average
50
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
42% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
42% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
16% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
May 20, 2025
100
Through its complex structure, formed of different timelines and split realities, uncanny dreams and blurred memories, “Alpha” viscerally teases out the binds of love and trauma.
Nov 13, 2025
80
Alpha is as thorny as her previous two features, but there’s something lonely and longing here too.
May 19, 2025
80
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.
Oct 9, 2025
50
The possibility of relating to the characters is constantly hindered by the struggle to make sense of the story’s messily sketched dystopia.
May 22, 2025
42
One film too late for a sophomore slump, Alpha feeds on its own potential, turning a possibly brilliant collection of ideas into one so muddy it’s hard to say exactly what any of them connote. But the feeling of having to trudge through is there all the same, and over two hours is a long trudge.
May 19, 2025
40
It’s painful to watch such talents pour so much into roles that are fairly common, if not clichéd by American indie standards.
May 19, 2025
20
The madly, bafflingly overwrought and humourless storytelling can’t overcome the fact that everything here is frankly unpersuasive and tedious. Every line, every scene, has the emoting dial turned up to 11 and yet feels redundant.
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Production Company:
- Mandarin & Compagnie
- Kallouche Cinéma
- Frakas Productions
- France 3 Cinéma
- Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
- Proximus
- BE TV
- Canal+
- Ciné+OCS
- France Télévisions
- Cofinova 22
- Indéfilms 14
- Cofimage 36
- Région Normandie
- Normandie Images
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
- Shelter Prod
- Taxshelter. be
- Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
Release Date:Mar 27, 2026
Duration:2 h 8 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Love Leaves a Mark
Awards
VHS Awards
• 3 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Biografilm Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination




























