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Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune: Scene to scene, encounter to encounter, its tension builds unrelentingly. So, fasten your seat belts. It`s a blast. Read more
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune: Count me out of the fan club for this one. Read more
Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times: It's blaster action, not Gothic future-horror. Fortunately, director-screenwriter James Cameron has shaped his film around the defiant intelligence and sensual athleticism of Weaver, and that's where Aliens works best. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: This film is also the best monster movie of the year and the best picture of any kind to open so far this summer. Put it another way: Aliens is the Jaws of the '80s. Read more
Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer: [Aliens] is a spectacular example of state-of-the-art science fiction simply because it never tries to be overtly spectacular. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: One sequel that surpasses the original. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Action thrillers assail but rarely test us; this is the tautest, most provoking, and altogether most draining example ever made. Read more
Walter Goodman, New York Times: A flaming, flashing, crashing, crackling blow-'em-up show that keeps you popping from your seat despite your better instincts and the basically conventional scare tactics. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: When it comes to the logical marriage of action, adventure, and science fiction, few films are as effective or accomplished as Aliens. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The ads for Aliens claim that this movie will frighten you as few movies have, and, for once, the ads don't lie. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: The trouble Ripley has found this time is exponentially bigger and scarier than anything she encountered in Ridley Scott's memorably minimalist, eerily elegant 1979 film. Read more