Alice (2022)

"(A) high-concept, deftly-executed drama..."

"Idiotic..."

"(A) well-intentioned but unpromising debut."

"A rousing, empowering fable."

"Alice aims for Blaxploitation highs, hits only awkward lows."

"An exercise in narrative subversion, which merges conflicting genres, blindsides expectant audiences and rarely lets up."

"Alice takes the historic struggles for Black freedom in America and exploits them in the most vapid ways possible."

"Alice may have little of substance to say about slavery, Black resistance, the 1970s or anything else, but at the very least it could have had a little more fun saying it."

"It's kick-ass and kind of funny, but real serious."

"While Ver Linden’s ideas never quite coalesce, Alice is at least consistently challenging."

"Alice... dares to go through the looking glass, but it doesn’t entirely know what to do once it gets there."

"Alice is so skittishly afraid to offend that it borders on parody."

"Regardless of how misplaced the script might be, Keke Palmer (brings) her A-game..."