That special linguistic connection between a stone-skinned alien and the reluctant astronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) was ...
"In space," some marketing genius once said, "no one can hear you scream". Bring the Xenomorph and its associated ecosystem back home, however — as "Alien: Earth" so memorably has — and you hear ...
That Alien, Sound will find its champions (and it should), but for all its imagination, the film needs restraint, not an expanded run-time to capture its deepest potential.