With an impressive Rotten Tomatoes score and a very divisive cameo, Fede Álvarez's "Alien: Romulus" turned heads and burst chests in 2024 as the latest big-screen addition to the "Alien" franchise.

That is where the story of Ripley should have ended, but we got Alien: Resurrection anyway. And that might have been okay if the film stuck its ambitious landing…but it didn’t. Alien: Resurrection ...