Ebert — Alice review (1974)
A first-run review: what a sympathetic 1974-75 critic saw before the film had a reputation.
- review
- primary-reception
Roger Ebert, review of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Chicago Sun-Times, on the film's first release. Read the review ↗
Good for
Reception evidence. Reviews written before consensus forms are primary documents for the Values force: they record what a first audience noticed, praised and didn't yet see. For Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and The women's picture, 1974, Ebert is the wiki's control sample of immediate mainstream reception — read against later feminist critique and the film's canonisation via Martin Scorsese's subsequent career.
Handle with care
One critic, one city, one deadline — a data point, not a verdict. The useful move is comparative: what does this review not mention that every modern account leads with (the Alice — the prologue pastiche, for instance)?