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 Alien (1979) More at IMDbPro »

  1. Chicago Sun-Times [Roger Ebert]
  2. Chicago Sun-Times [Roger Ebert]
  3. Guardian/Observer
  4. ReelViews [James Berardinelli]
  5. BBCi - Films
  6. BBCi - Films (DVD review)
  7. New York Times (registration req'd)
  8. Salon.com [Andrew O'Hehir]
  9. San Francisco Chronicle [Peter Hartlaub]
  10. Screen It! (spoilers)
  11. Urban Cinefile (Australia) - Director's Cut
  12. FlickFilosopher.com - The director's cut [MaryAnn Johanson]
  13. 0-5 Star Reviews Moria - The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review [Richard Scheib]
  14. 25frames.org [Christoph Huber] (German)
  15. 411Mania.com [Dunn]
  16. AVForums (Blu-ray) [Andrew Mogford]
  17. AboutFilm
  18. Aisle View - Director's Cut
  19. Aleksandar's Capsule Movie Reviews
  20. All Movie Guide [Lucia Bozzola]
  21. Alligatographe (French)
  22. Almost Fabulous Movie Reviews
  23. And You Thought It Was Safe(?) [David DeMoss]
  24. Anthony's Film Review
  25. AppsScraps Movies
  26. Arka Pencere [Burak Göral] (Turkish)
  27. Arrow In The Head Review: Alien
  28. At the Movies (Dutch)
  29. At-A-Glance Film Reviews
  30. Attack of the 50 Foot DVD!
  31. BasementRejects.com [JPRoscoe]
  32. BeyondHollywood.com
  33. Bill's Movie Emporium [Bill Thompson]
  34. BlairWitch.de (German)
  35. Blogcritics - DVD review [Matt Paprocki]
  36. Blood Brothers [Matt Reifschneider]
  37. Bloodtype Online [John "El Juan" Shatzer]
  38. Boca do Inferno (Portuguese)
  39. Boca do Inferno [Alessandro Julien de Souza] (Brazilian Portuguese)
  40. Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films [Clayton Trapp]
  41. British Horror Films
  42. CINeol [Delbruck] (Spanish)
  43. Captain Charismas Filmblogg [Tom Kleppe] (Norwegian)
  44. Cats on Film [Anne Billson]
  45. Celluloid Dreams
  46. Chambel.net (Portuguese)
  47. Cine Cápsulas [Gustavo H. Razera] (Portuguese)
  48. Cine Fantastico: Alien
  49. Cine y Letras. Revista de Cultura [Guzmán Urrero Peña] (Spanish)
  50. CineFile.biz [Fabrizio Formenti] (Italian)
  51. CineHall: News about the Alien saga (Italian)
  52. Cinefania [Dario Lavia] (Spanish)
  53. Cinema Alley
  54. Cinema Laser
  55. Cinema Sights [James Ewing]
  56. Cinemafantastique (French)
  57. Cinemagazine [Hans Geurts] (Dutch)
  58. Cinerama.no [Kristin Strand] (Norwegian)
  59. Cineycine.com [David González] (Spanish)
  60. Cineycine.com [David González] (Spanish)
  61. Classic-Horror
  62. Cole Smithey [Cole Smithey]
  63. Combustible Celluloid [Jeffrey M. Anderson]
  64. Common Sense Media [Charles Cassady Jr.]
  65. Corndog Chats [Adam Kuhn]
  66. Countingdown.com review [Max Colston]
  67. Crazy for Cinema
  68. Cyberpunk Review
  69. DVD Authority - Alien Quadrilogy DVD review
  70. DVD Journal
  71. DVD Net [Jules Faber] - Collector's Edition (Region 4)
  72. DVD Review
  73. DVD Review: The "Alien:Legacy" Box Set
  74. DVD Times Alien Quadrilogy [Mike Sutton]
  75. DVD Town - Alien Quadrilogy [John J. Puccio]
  76. DVD Verdict
  77. DVD Verdict - Alien Anthology (Blu-ray) [Clark Douglas]
  78. DVD Verdict - Collector's Edition
  79. DVD Verdict - The Alien Quadrilogy
  80. DVD-CENTER (German)
  81. DVDAnswers.com - region 1 review of Quadrilogy boxset [Chris Gould]
  82. DVDAnswers.com - region 2 review of Quadrilogy boxset [Richard Schuchardt]
  83. DVDBeaver.com - Review [Gary W. Tooze]
  84. DVDFanatic - Alien Quadrilogy [Sean Chavel]
  85. DVDTalk.com - Alien Anthology BD [Jamie S. Rich]
  86. DVDcompare.net (Anthology Blu-ray)
  87. Daily Dead [Jonathan James]
  88. Damox - DVD Review
  89. Daniel Stephens
  90. Das DGF-Magazin [Stefan Eis] (German)
  91. Des films au poil! [Jack Sullivan's Blog] (French)
  92. DevilDead (French)
  93. Die-besten-Horrorfilme.de (German)
  94. Digg* Review (Dutch)
  95. Digital Lard
  96. Digital Retribution
  97. Dimension Fantastica [James Wallestein] (Spanish)
  98. DoBlu.com (Blu-ray) [Matt Paprocki]
  99. Doom Cheez Cinema [Ziggy]
  100. Dual Lens - Review
  101. Dual Lens - The Alien Symposium
  102. EYEonDVD [Neil Karassik]
  103. Edinburgh U Film Society [Sarah Woolner]
  104. El rincón de Carlos del Río [Carlos del Río] (Spanish)
  105. Electric Sheep Magazine [John Bleasdale]
  106. Encyclopedia Of Fantastic Film & TV
  107. Entertainment Zone Review [Jay Woelfel]
  108. Entertainmentopia [Erich Becker]
  109. Epinions [Hugh U. Kidden]
  110. Epinions [McMaster]
  111. Epinions [flash-hammer]
  112. Epinions.com [George Chabot]
  113. Essay
  114. Exclaim! [Chris Gramlich]
  115. Exclaim! [Chris Gramlich]
  116. Explore-science-fiction-movies.com
  117. Eye Weekly [Jason Anderson]
  118. EyeForFilm.co.uk
  119. FEARnet [Scott Weinberg]
  120. Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings
  121. Fast Forward Film Reviews
  122. Fearshop.com Horror Podcast
  123. FeoAmente.com [Kelly Parks]
  124. Film Intuition: Anthology Blu-ray Set [Jen Johans]
  125. Film-Panorama.de [Sascha Wuttke] (German)
  126. FilmFanatic.org
  127. FilmHead.com - Video Pick
  128. FilmJerk.com [Edward Havens]
  129. Filmhai (German)
  130. Filmjaeger.de (German)
  131. Filmski Blog
  132. Filmspiegel (German)
  133. FireBlade Coffeehouse DVD Reviews
  134. FishEye : Movie reviews without the boring bits (Hebrew)
  135. Flickfeast [Kevin Matthews]
  136. Flix Capacitor [Stephen Carty]
  137. Four Word Film Review
  138. Fulvue Drive-in [Nicholas Sheffo]
  139. Future Movies - review [Adrian Mackinder]
  140. GenX Movies
  141. Gods of Filmmaking
  142. Good News Film Reviews
  143. Gutmunchers.com [John Shatzer]
  144. Haro Online
  145. Home Theater Info DVD Review
  146. Home Theater and Sound [Wes Marshall]
  147. Horror Chronicles [Ramius Scythe]
  148. Horror Fan Zine [Bill Gordon]
  149. Horror Online (Polish)
  150. HorrorDVDs.com
  151. Horrorwatch.com
  152. I Like Horror Movies [Carl Manes]
  153. I Like To Watch [Sarcasto]
  154. InsidePulse.com - Alien Quadrilogy DVD Review
  155. InsidePulse.com [Robert Sutton]
  156. Isle of Man Today [Colm Andrew]
  157. Jam! Movies
  158. Jester's Movie Reviews
  159. John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
  160. Kingdom of Desire (German)
  161. Knowthemovies.com [Paul Wall]
  162. L'Encyclopedie du Cinema Fantastique (French)
  163. L'Internaute::Cinéma [Rédaction L'Internaute] (French)
  164. Mainly Movies
  165. Man, I Love Films [Simon Columb]
  166. Matchflick [Jenny]
  167. MikeyMo
  168. Mondo Digital
  169. Montreal Mirror [Matthew Hays]
  170. MoviEmotion.nl Special [Arien Siertsema] (Dutch)
  171. Movie Farm [Jim Ross]
  172. Movie Gnome
  173. Movie Gurus
  174. Movie House Commentary
  175. Movie Moxie [Shannon Ridler]
  176. Movie Ram-blings
  177. Movie Vault [Avril Carruthers]
  178. Movie Vault [Greg C.]
  179. Movie Views [Ryan Cracknell]
  180. MovieMaze.de (German)
  181. MovieMaze.de (German)
  182. MovieboX [Andreas Ingo] (Swedish)
  183. Mr. Cranky
  184. Mutant Reviewers From Hell
  185. New York Times [Vincent Canby]
  186. Nexus7: Alien, el 8º pasajero
  187. Nitrate Online (capsule)
  188. Nitrate Online (capsule)
  189. NonModern [Jason Dietz]
  190. Old School Reviews [John Nesbit]
  191. OutNow! DVD Review (German)
  192. Ozus' World Movie Reviews [Dennis Schwartz]
  193. PHILM - Danske filmanmeldelser (Danish)
  194. Parallax View [Tom Keogh]
  195. Philadelphia City Paper [Sam Adams]
  196. Plume Noire (French)
  197. Popcorn Pictures
  198. Popkorn Junkie's Review
  199. Powermetal.de - VideoZone (German)
  200. Quiet Please [Eric Mahleb]
  201. Qwipster's Movie Reviews [Vince Leo]
  202. RG Crow's Bosting Reviews
  203. Rambles [Tom Knapp]
  204. Reel Movie Critic [George Singleton]
  205. Review By Dan Ray
  206. Revista Cinefagia (Spanish)
  207. Rio Rancho Film Reviews (*potentially offensive*)
  208. Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics
  209. Ruthless Reviews ("potentially offensive")
  210. SF-Radio.Net (German)
  211. ScaryMinds [Jeff Ritchie]
  212. Schlombies Filmbesprechungen (German)
  213. SciScene Review: Alien
  214. Shadows on the Wall [Rich Cline]
  215. Showcase Movies [Nathan D'Rozario]
  216. Skrekkfilm.com (Norwegian)
  217. Slant Magazine
  218. Slate [Michael Agger]
  219. Spaceship Rear View [Serge V. Berezhnoy] (Russian)
  220. Spirituality & Practice [Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat]
  221. Surrender to the Void-[Steven Flores]
  222. TV Guide
  223. TVClassik [Franck Suzanne] (French)
  224. TalkTalk
  225. TerrorHook.com [Rick L. Blalock] (Blu-Ray -Anthology)
  226. That Was A Bit Mental [Chris Scullion]
  227. The Auteurs
  228. The BigScreen Cinema Guide - Reader Reviews
  229. The Book-Lover's Guide to Cinema [4.0/5.0]
  230. The Cinemaslave Blog
  231. The City Review [Carter B. Horsley]
  232. The Essentials Project [Michael Nusair]
  233. The Film Asylum
  234. The Greatest Films - comprehensive analysis of classic US film
  235. The Movie Scene [Andy Webb]
  236. The One-Line Review [Iain Stott]
  237. The Onion A.V. Club [Keith Phipps]
  238. The Onion A.V. Club [Keith Phipps]
  239. The Onion A.V. Club [Keith Phipps]
  240. The Sci-Fi Block
  241. The Sci-Fi Movie Page - DVD review
  242. The Stop Button [Andrew Wickliffe]
  243. The Terror Trap
  244. The Video Vacuum [Mitch Lovell]
  245. The World's Greatest Critic! [J.C. Maçek III]
  246. TheBoxSet.com - Complete Movie/DVD Review
  247. TheGreatWhiteDope's Mecha-Blog-Zilla
  248. Thrill Me Softly [Stefan Hedmark]
  249. Time Magazine [Frank Rich]
  250. Time Out
  251. Time Out New York [Keith Uhlich]
  252. Top 100 Science Fiction Movies
  253. Top10Films.co.uk
  254. Tweet-Size Horror
  255. Un Mundo de Cine (Spanish)
  256. Video Graveyard
  257. Wooden Spoon's
  258. Zombie Keeper [Loudlonald]
  259. allesfilm.com [Christoph Huber] (German)
  260. b-movies.gr (Greek)
  261. cine.gr (Greek)
  262. dancingpotato's review, epinions.com
  263. dvdforum.nu [Anders Liden] (Swedish)
  264. dvdforum.nu [CJ Åkerberg] (Swedish)
  265. eFilmCritic Reviews
  266. eFilmCritic Reviews
  267. eXXagon's reXtricted (Italian)
  268. filmcritic.com
  269. filmrezension.de [Matthias vom Schemm] (German)
  270. filmsgraded.com [Brian Koller]
  271. filmzentrale [D. Möltner] (German)
  272. filmzentrale [Transpluto] (German)
  273. filmzentrale [U. Behrens] (German)
  274. mojoba.de (German)
  275. moviemaster.de [Frank Ehrlacher] (German)
  276. moviepilot.de [German Top Critics]
  277. myrating.dk [Thomas Ardal] (Danish)
  278. n:zone [D.Kelly]
  279. not coming to a theater near you [Chiranjit Goswami]
  280. the m0vie blog [Darren Mooney]

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