Film Review, a movie written and directed by Julia Ducournau and starring Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, Mélissa Boros, ...

All credit to a newly-minted Palme d'Or-winner for having the courage to step out of their comfort zone, but "Alpha" is an insufferable misfire.

Director Julia Ducournau ("Raw," "Titane") takes on an ambitious tale about a devastating, highly metaphorical virus, but her ideas get lost in grandiosity.

It’s unclear whether Alpha (Mélissa Boros), the title character of the new film from Titane and Raw writer-director Julia Ducournau, is named for her generation. For that matter, Alpha has enough ...