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100
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Pay attention to the enhanced detail audible in a new six-track sound mix, which may be the most important cleaning job of all; silence and Jerry Goldsmith's score have never twined so hauntingly.
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100
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Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Watching it again reminded me how remarkably the sound engineers did their jobs. Listen to the subtly amplified heartbeat - Ripley's? the ship's? - that pulses under the soundtrack through the last 15 minutes.
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100
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San Francisco Chronicle
Feels like a streamlined improvement on the original.
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100
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The best thriller of 2003 was made in 1979.
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90
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Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
Twenty-four years later -- digitally spruced up, with some scenes shaved and others padded with previously cut material -- Scott's film still shreds nerves.
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88
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
What's most unusual about the original 24 years later, though, is its elegant minimalism.
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88
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Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
An old nightmare, made shiny new.
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88
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New York Post Lou Lumenick
Mostly it's worth seeing Alien, which established Scott as an A-list director, in a theater because his brilliant and often expansive visuals have always worked better on a big screen than on video.
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88
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
The most important features of this "new" version are the digital cleaning of the print and the re-mastering of the sound. There are a few added scenes, but they are mostly insignificant and have been previously seen (at least by fans of the movie) on the laserdisc or DVD releases.
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88
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Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Alien, even with some scene tinkering that has left this "director's cut" one minute shorter than its original release, is still one of the creepiest, scariest, most shocking films ever.
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