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      • This is a ripping good adventure yarn with memorable visuals and an original premise and feel. Alpha presents a plausible take on the origins of the human-canine bond -- but more importantly, it's an absorbing survival tale with an appealing main character and a wolf that everyone will root for.
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  1. Aug 17, 2018 · Alpha” is your basic “boy and his dog” story, except this time the dog is a wolf and the story takes place twenty-thousand years ago. This is marketed as a film about the “origins of man’s best friend,” but if you ask me, it’s an ad designed to guilt you into buying your kids a wolf.

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  3. Well-acted and beautifully filmed, Alpha offers a canine-assisted epic adventure that blends rousing action with an extra helping of canine charm. Read Critics Reviews

    • (134)
    • Albert Hughes
    • PG-13
    • Kodi Smit-Mcphee
  4. Aug 16, 2018 · Literature and cinema have served up dozens, if not hundreds, of “boy and his dog” stories over the years, but “Alpha” may be a genre first: an origin tale.

    • Albert Hughes
    • 2 min
  5. Parents need to know that Alpha is an intense survival adventure about a prehistoric teen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who forms the first human-canine bond with a wolf while trying to make it home. Expect significant, frequent peril to both the boy and the wolf, including cliff falls, animal attacks, lingering….

    • Albert Hughes
    • Michael Ordona
    • Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing
  6. Alpha is a 2018 American prehistoric adventure film directed by Albert Hughes and written by Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt, from a story by Hughes. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young hunter who encounters and befriends an injured wolf during the last ice age, with Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as his father.

  7. THE VERDICT: Alpha is good in regards to the beautiful visual spectacle that it is. The primal world is alive in all of the amazing details that the big studios can make, and the even better it is in a nice concise 90 minutes to get you out quick.

  8. Aug 15, 2018 · Directed by Albert Hughes (The Book of Eli), Alpha is definitely sentimental, even pandering at times. But its unexpected setting, images, set pieces, and even language balance out the...

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