Review – Alien: Romulus

Fede Alvarez plays the hits.

For better and for worse, Fede Alvarez returns the Alien franchise to the horror movie roots laid by Ridley Scott in 1979. Less a haunted house movie in space than a slasher among the stars, Alien: Romulus is a bloody, claustrophobic entry. But it also diverts the franchise from the provocative ideas posed by Prometheus and Alien: Covenant to deliver a …