<em>Alien: Covenant</em> Is the Best Installment Since <i>Aliens</i>
Ridley Scott's latest movie wisely focuses on extraterrestrial suspense, not windy philosophizing.
Well, at least now it’s all sorted out. When the director Ridley Scott released in 2012, he was strangely reticent on the question of whether it was a prequel to the famed franchise, maintaining only that “the keen fan will recognize strands of ’s DNA.” It was a silly claim then— was a prequel to —and now even that odd little bit of obfuscation has been laid to rest. That’s because Scott’s latest, , is quite explicitly both a sequel and a prequel to , so by the transitive property—you get the idea.
