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Don't be fooled by the presence of some pretty-boy actors: Alpha Dog is a gritty, gut-wrenching and disturbing film.Full Review

Claudia Puig
USA Today

Alpha Dog isn't a happy movie, but it's dramatically solid and the impressions it leaves will not be easily shaken.Full Review

James Berardinelli
ReelViews

The movie suffers from an uncertain structure, but it boasts an extraordinary naturalism, not particularly flattering. Sharon Stone has a brilliant, harsh turn as Zack's mom, and both Bruce Willis and Harry Dean Stanton have good turns as the elder generations of Trueloves. But the movie belongs to its youngsters, and it's a real eye-opener.Full Review

Stephen Hunter
Washington Post

There's more voyeurism going on here, and less insight into a certain culture (the young and the wasted), than the filmmakers would probably admit to, but the performances are scarily real, and the outcome, well, is just scary.Full Review

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

Writer-director Nick Cassavetes' sprawling dramatization recklessly blurs the line between reconstruction and reality in ways that are admittedly interesting, if more than a little artistically suspect.Full Review

Justin Chang
Variety
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