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Since its electrifying debut nearly two decades ago, the Alien franchise remains the sci-fi vehicle most conducive to provocative ideas, hardboiled edginess, sheer excitement, and auteurist elan.
Knight mother
By PETER KEOUGH | June 08, 2012

Review: Alien 3

The first Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, was aptly titled: it confronted us with a creature as alien and intimate as our worst nightmares.
Look who’s stalking
By PETER KEOUGH | June 08, 2012

Review: Aliens

Aliens is a horror-film spectacular, a dark and exhilarating epic that keeps building.
Loving the Aliens
By OWEN GLEIBERMAN | June 08, 2012

Review: Alien

Be forewarned: sleep won't come easily the night you see Alien .
Oh, The Horror! The creature-feature enters a new realm
By STEPHEN SCHIFF | June 08, 2012

Review: Prometheus

The best films in the Alien series, Ridley Scott's original and James Cameron's pluralized follow-up, didn't bother much with pondering the meaning of it all. The only film that did so, Alien 3 , is the worst.
Ridley Scott's monumental and busy return
By PETER KEOUGH | June 08, 2012

Aliens: a history

The Phoenix has been reviewing Alien movies for longer than any of us can remember.
Looking back on past Phoenix reviews of Alien movies
By PHOENIX STAFF | June 08, 2012