The Playlist by Oliver Lyttelton

Alps has proven Lanthimos to be one of the most fascinating filmmakers anywhere right now.

New York Post

The movie focuses tightly and obviously on role playing, but the most unsettling observations concern how fragile it all is - our health, our minds, our denial of death.

Slant Magazine

Both a companion piece to and in many ways a reversal of "Dogtooth," it builds on that film's surreally terse style and notions of communication and identity without diluting its singularity or concentration.

Slant Magazine by Fernando F. Croce

Both a companion piece to and in many ways a reversal of "Dogtooth," it builds on that film's surreally terse style and notions of communication and identity without diluting its singularity or concentration.

New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

The movie focuses tightly and obviously on role playing, but the most unsettling observations concern how fragile it all is - our health, our minds, our denial of death.

Time Out by Keith Uhlich

Puzzling and provocative, Alps has a lingering power and an effect that is thrillingly difficult to define.

The Guardian by Xan Brooks

Follow the film-maker. Let him lead you by the nose. Lanthimos knows exactly where he's going.

Movieline by Michelle Orange

The climax errs on the side of the overwrought and overdetermined, like an earnest adolescent's first attempt at a short story. And yet Papoulia's extraordinary performance lingers, as does the film's provocative existential fog.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey

Alps, in spite of its title, is a very flat film, from the shallow focus photography, to the actors' monotone delivery.

Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

With "Dogtooth," the point was: Don't try this at home. Now, the expanded lesson is: Don't try this anywhere.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Like "Dogtooth," Alps works by systematically unsettling our sense of what is normal and habitual in human interactions.

Los Angeles Times by Mark Olsen

The film takes some deciphering, but once a viewer cracks its code Alps opens up into something expansive and rich. Part of what makes Lanthimos so uniquely masterful is that he remains in control while refusing to point toward any singular interpretation.

The A.V. Club

Lanthimos' skill at orchestrating these tense, creepy, shockingly funny setpieces is just as evident here as it was in "Dogtooth," but too much of Alps is left vague.

Boxoffice Magazine by Sara Maria Vizcarrondo

The premise is fetching and feels like a mystery, particularly as the film orchestrates its story to make the work of the Alps group seem like a kind of heist.

Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton

It's quibbling to draw up columns denoting what Lanthimos, a difficult but undeniable talent, does right and does wrong. He's seemingly working intuitively here, and whatever missteps he makes while feeling his way forward, he manages to pass quite near to one of the essential conundrums of being human.

Variety

The cumulative force of the screenplay and Yorgos Mavropsaridis' editing is not as hypnotic as in "Dogtooth," perhaps in part because those familiar with Lanthimos' m.o. will know what to expect.