Aline
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: April 8, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
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Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
9
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The Film StageJose SolísApr 8, 2022
Although Lemercier isn’t a Dion doppelgänger, in the scenes where she lip syncs and moves to Dion’s tunes, she embodies that divinely picaresque energy Dion radiates. And just like a TikTok rabbit hole of Dion challenges, it’s impossible to take your eyes off her. Read full review
83
IndieWireJude DryApr 7, 2022
Surprisingly funny, well-acted, and a little offbeat, Aline is as delightfully kooky as its monumental subject. Read full review
78
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeApr 6, 2022
It fills up the uncharted territory between parody and pure fan service with a guileless weirdness that the biopic genre never knew it could accommodate but, in a post–“Walk Hard” world, could stand to emulate. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattApr 15, 2022
Watch it sincerely or as a curiosity; at least you know you won't forget it. Read full review
75
Paste MagazineSydney UrbanekApr 5, 2022
Lemercier’s film is worth seeing at least once, regardless of your existing familiarity with (or even interest in) Dion. It never lampoons her, but rather taps into the heart of her appeal as a public figure…which, talent aside, just so happens to come back to her kookiness. Read full review
71
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 10, 2022
Most impressively, Lemercier manages to make Dion/Aline’s not-terribly-dramatic hardships – she has trouble conceiving with her husband, she misses her family while on the road, she feels exhausted by her Las Vegas schedule – feel relatable and compelling. Part of that is Lemercier’s full-throttle commitment to the bit. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreApr 8, 2022
More than anything, Aline feels like a kamikaze act of wish fulfillment, wildly indulgent but so deeply committed to what it’s doing that it can’t help but be compelling. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 7, 2022
Like a lush ballad that’s somehow both off-key and in total harmony, it’s unlike anything else out there, and certainly more interesting in its swings and misses than a lot of the machine-stamped celebrity biopics littering the movie landscape these days. Read full review
67
Vanity FairRichard LawsonApr 8, 2022
There is a chance that much more of Aline is played for comedy than I realize; perhaps the jolts of revulsion and fascination are meant to resolve into a giddy laugh. But the film doesn’t really wink to let us in on the joke, except perhaps for one scene that puts a full, slo-mo view on the results of this experiment. Read full review
67
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonApr 7, 2022
The unbridled mess that is Aline is just off-kilter enough to warrant a look, no matter how well you know Céline Dion. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinApr 21, 2022
It’s a very tolerable watch, if somewhat interminable and rather lacking in proper drama. But perhaps that’s just what an audience of hardened Dion fans would want from a viewing. Read full review
60
Film ThreatChris SalceApr 8, 2022
Aline has quite a few things to praise, but the bio-pic overall feels like a slight step up from a made-for-television film when it comes down to it. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonApr 7, 2022
The movie’s passion is incredible — but, boy, is it embodied in something awkward. Read full review
58
Original-CinJim SlotekFeb 2, 2022
Esthetically perched somewhere between a low-budget TV biopic and a soap opera - with occasional flourishes of bonkers-cheesiness worthy of cult status - Aline is the Celine Dion hagiography no one could have dreamed up except its director. Read full review
50
SlateCarl WilsonApr 11, 2022
It’s not that I wish Aline took more advantage of its fictional liberties to mock or undermine Céline Dion. I just wish it had much more to say about something—such as child stardom, what it’s like to move from working-class margins to opulence, or the simultaneously reverent and condescending relationship that pop culture had with Dion at her 1990s peak Read full review
50
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaApr 8, 2022
A deeply misguided act of worship, it starts out as a hilariously bizarre showreel of strange visual effects, before devolving into a distant, disconnected retelling of the highlights of Dion’s life. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneK. Austin CollinsApr 6, 2022
What starts as one of those rare, unplaceable, maybe-satire, maybe-camp, high-wire pop confections morphs into a fairly straightforward biopic about a beloved superstar that seems overly wary of pissing off a living idol. Read full review
50
Washington PostHau ChuApr 5, 2022
Beyond Aline’s visual incongruities, there’s a problem with is its choice of focus. Read full review
40
Screen RantFerdosa AbdiApr 13, 2022
The result is a baffling and confounding mess that is either intended to make audiences laugh or is dead-serious in its pursuit. Whatever the intention, it is up to viewers to decipher what is most true to them. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 20, 2022
It’s almost disappointing that the movie plays things more or less straight after that jarring first act. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineJake ColeApr 6, 2022
Valérie Lemercier’s film feels at once like a vanity project for its maker and a glorified fan tribute. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesApr 18, 2022
There are no insights here, only lavishly budgeted cosplay. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyApr 8, 2022
My soul rejected what I was seeing. My response was: What in the Uncanny Valley is going on here? Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 2, 2022
Lemercier’s weirdly grinning, gurning face superimposed on the child’s head creates an unnatural chill that the film fails to shrug off, even after Aline as an adult is supposed to be glammed up with her teeth fixed. Read full review
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