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Avg. Critic Score: 39 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 OK for kids 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    If, as the Virgil quote that starts the film claims, fortune favors the bold, Alexander has not been nearly bold enough. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Since the movie lacks a vision of what Alexander was really about as a man and a figure in history, it falls back all too frequently on movie spectacle. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    At best an honorable failure, an intelligent and ambitious picture that crucially lacks dramatic flair and emotional involvement. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    [Stone] gives us provocative notes and sketches but not a final draft. The film doesn't feel at ease with itself. It says too much, and yet leaves too much unsaid. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    An exhausted epic, one that Stone has directed with an almost startling lack of personality or vision. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    A movie that has neither dramatic focus nor a single memorable performance, aside from one or two that are memorable for the wrong reasons? Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Like every other second of more than 10,000 seconds in Alexander, it doesn't engage in the least. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    This is the costliest, most logistically complex feature of the filmmaker's career, and it appears that the effort to wrangle so many beasts, from elephants to movie stars and money men, along with the headaches that come with sweeping period films, got the better of him. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Stone tries to make us like Alexander because he's good, when he should have made us want to watch Alexander because he's amazing. Read full review

  • 25
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Alexander breaks the key rule that makes movies move: Show, don't tell. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 16+ Alexander the person was great. This movie isn't.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has extreme and explicit battle violence with many impalings and other graphic injuries. Alexander is portrayed as bi-sexual. There are very explicit heterosexual sexual situations and references and male and female nudity, plus references and implications of gay sex and some same-sex kissing and a mother-son kiss on the mouth and an attempted rape. Some exotic dancers perform in skimpy attire. Characters drink, sometimes to excess.
  • Families can talk about Alexander's influences. What did he learn from his father and what did he learn from his mother? Why did he marry Roxane? What was most important to him? What is best remembered about him? Why?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Not an issue
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Intense and graphic battle violence, many deaths, lots of blood.
  • sex false5 Sex: Nudity, explicit sexual gay and heterosexual references and situations.
  • language false0 Language: Not an issue
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: A lot of drinking, characters get drunk.

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