It's kick-ass and kind of funny, but real serious.

Alice is so skittishly afraid to offend that it borders on parody.

While Ver Linden’s ideas never quite coalesce, “Alice” is at least consistently challenging.

For all its flaws, though, Alice is consistently interesting, and Palmer has a lot to do with that, carrying the film with grace and simplicity in a part that could conceivably finished another actor altogether.