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Alex Harrison-Senior Movie News Editor & Critic

Alex Harrison

Senior Movie News Editor & Critic

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Author Details

Alex is the Senior Movie News Editor, co-managing the Movie/TV News team, as well as part of Screen Rant's stable of critics. After graduating from Brown University with a B.A. in English, he spent a locked-down year in Scotland completing a Master's in Film Studies from the University of Edinburgh, which he hears is a nice, lively city. He now lives in and works from Milan, Italy, which he sometimes glimpses through his window while typing away in his apartment.

Industry Focus

Alex's interest in film gradually took over his academic study, and it has done the same since he joined SR in 2020. Working his way up the Movie & TV News beat has built up a strong general knowledge of projects both seen and unseen, but whether working for News or Reviews, films remain his primary interest.

Favorite Media

Though prodding him for his "favorite" anything won't do you any favors, Alex's love for all things cinema can probably be traced back to watching the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring at four years old. Having since discovered the joys of Buster Keaton, David Lynch, and Céline Sciamma, he doesn't plan on ever giving up the dream of carrying a little review notebook from screening to screening and calling it a career.

Latest Articles

Evie Templeton in her Harvest Angel costume in Lord of Misrule 1
Lord Of Misrule Review: Folk Horror Movie Completely Misunderstands What Makes It Work

Lord of Misrule is not a bad movie, but it is an underachieving one. The good ideas it has are buried under too much cliché to breathe.

Joel Kinnaman with a manic expression in Silent Night 1
Silent Night Review: John Woo’s Hollywood Return Is Messy, Guilty Fun

Silent Night winks at us as often as it tries for real drama, and which tone you accept will determine whether you have as much fun with it as I did.

Jesse Eisenberg in Manodrome 1
Manodrome Review: Eisenberg Is Excellent In Impactful But Fatally Flawed Movie

Manodrome lacks depth as social commentary or character study, largely because of how it positions us in relation to its protagonist’s perspective.

Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed looking dejected in Fingernails 1
Fingernails Review: A Gentle, Well-Acted Film That Should’ve Been More Interesting

It's hard not to wish Fingernails had grander designs. It shows just enough of its potential to leave us wanting those ideas expressed more fully.

Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein conducting in Maestro 1
Maestro Review: Bradley Cooper’s Bernstein Biopic Is Artful & Fractured

Maestro is not a biopic of an artist so much as a human artwork, capturing the questions he provokes and the contradictory answers that define him.

Aunjanue Ellis in Origin 1
Origin Review: Convincing, Engaging & More Conventional Than It Seems

Only during Origin's final act, which makes an aggressive play for a big swell of emotion, did my appreciation start to curdle.

Glen Powell in Hit Man 1
Hit Man Review: Breezy Comedy Is Richard Linklater’s Cure For What Ails Movies

Savor Hit Man, however you come across it - it's not every day the movies entertain us in this way at this level of execution anymore.

Peter Sarsgaard and Jessica Chastain in Memory 1
Memory Review: Thorny Drama Gets All Its Depth From The Actors

Everyone is doing great work in Memory, and for me, the experience of being swept up in the acting is always worth the price of admission.

Kaitlyn Dever in No One Will Save You 1
No One Will Save You Review: Kaitlyn Dever Anchors Daringly Creative Genre Movie

Daringly creative, No One Will Save You is as much of an in-the-moment good time as it is worthy of lingering thought and discussion.

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Sex Education (2019)
Sex Education Season 4 Review: A Worthy End To One Of Netflix’s Best Shows

Let Sex Education season 4, and our response to it, remind the powers that be in Hollywood why good writing should not be taken for granted.

The Monkey King, Lin, and the Mayor looking up worriedly 1
The Monkey King Review: A Misfire For Netflix Animation

The heart of the problem is The Monkey King makes its central character, whose story has been told and retold for hundreds of years, uninteresting.

Ben Kingsley on the phone in Jules 1
Jules Review: Make This Touching Sci-Fi Comedy Your Next Theater Outing

Jules is a lighthearted, empathetic film that multiple generations of family can see together and all find something worth taking with them.

Casey Affleck in Dreamin Wild 1
Dreamin’ Wild Review: Music Drama Can’t Live Up To Its Own Expectations

Dreamin' Wild is sometimes too caught up in its own artfulness, and all that weighted form ends up trapping its ideas rather than giving them heft.

Nicolas Cage in Sympathy for the Devil 1
Sympathy For The Devil Review: Nicolas Cage Thriller Can’t Sustain Interest

Sympathy for the Devil is a missed opportunity with a collection of engaging moments, none sustained enough to really satisfy.

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Dead Reckoning 1
Dead Reckoning Recycles Parts Of Every Mission Impossible Movie – And It’s Genius

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 revisits storylines from every previous movie in the franchise, and that's definitely not an accident.

Rosy McEwen in Blue Jean 1
Blue Jean Review: An Incisive Portrait Of Internalized Homophobia

Give yourself over to Blue Jean’s wavelength, and I believe you'll find it engrossing, insightful, and, unfortunately, quite timely.

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Oppenheimer Trailer: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt & A Disappointed Einstein

Universal Pictures releases a brand-new trailer for the upcoming Christopher Nolan historical drama Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy.

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Love & Death (2023)
Love & Death Review: Elizabeth Olsen-Led Crime Drama Is More Than Meets The Eye

There is more reason to recommend it, but this series would be worth it just to watch what Elizabeth Olsen does with a role this nuanced.

Michelle Williams Showing Up 1
Showing Up Review: A Richly Textured Meditation On The Exhibition Of Art

Among the many things that could result from watching it, Showing Up makes easy to understand why making and displaying art can be so agonizing.

Mary Woodvine looks over her shoulder in Enys Men 1
Enys Men Review: Gripping Craft & Atmosphere Needed A Touch More Story

Those who enjoy cinema's more experimental works should seek this one out; more mainstream audiences may not find Enys Men to their liking.

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