Alpha (2025)

Alpha poster

Alpha (2025)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Negative

Viewer Rating
5.9

Overview

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.


Starring Cast


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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

The film's exploration of institutional failure, fear-based social control, gendered caregiving burdens, and adolescent bodily autonomy aligns with progressive social commentary, even though it operates within a personal and familial register rather than engaging in explicit partisan politics.

The movie features a visibly diverse cast with actors of various ethnic backgrounds in key roles. Its narrative explores significant social themes related to a fictional epidemic, allegorically linked to the AIDS crisis, focusing on societal fear, shame, and denial. However, the film does not explicitly recast traditionally white roles with minority actors, nor does its narrative explicitly critique traditional identities.

Secondary

The film features an openly gay couple, one of whom is infected with a disease allegorical to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Their depiction is primarily tied to themes of societal fear, shame, and stigma, with their narrative arc left undeveloped, contributing to a problematic portrayal.

Based on available information, Alpha (2025) does not appear to feature transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on adolescent development, a fictional epidemic, and complex family dynamics, particularly a mother-daughter relationship, without any indication of gender identity or transsexual representation.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film "Alpha" (2025) is an original fictional story with no identified source material or historical basis. Therefore, no characters have a pre-established gender from which to deviate, meaning no gender swaps occur according to the definition.

The film "Alpha" is an original production, and its characters were not established in any prior source material. Therefore, no race swap can be identified as there is no canonical race to deviate from.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

5.9

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
5.9
The Movie Database logo
6.4

Critic Ratings

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5.8
Metacritic logo
5.6

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