With this film, Wenders crystallized his style of existential sentimentality. His cool eye for urbanism and design blends a love of kitsch with a hatred for commercialism, historicism with a fear of history’s ghosts.
80
Time Out
Time Out
There are points when the director allows his voice to ring a little loudly from behind the camera, but the richness and depth of both the photography and the characterisation manage to brush any signs of preachiness and sentimentality from view.
80
The Observer (UK)
The Observer (UK)
Yella Rottlander is unforgettable as Alice. [06 Jan 2008, p.16]
75
Slant MagazineCarson Lund
Slant MagazineCarson Lund
What makes Alice in the Cities so noteworthy is the tender, lifelike rapport cultivated between Vogler and Rottländer.
75
TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
An ancestor of director Wenders's 1984 film Paris, Texas.