Alien Resurrection

(Twentieth Century Fox)

Credit Jean-Pierre Jeunet's fractured-fairy-tale sensibility with giving the Alien franchise a credible fourth go-round -- plus Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, who's back through the miracle of cloning. There's the familiar Alien game of who gets it and who doesn't, but Jeunet's real concern is setting Alien's profound nihilism against Ripley's motherhood instinct. "Who are you?" is the question she's asked -- a question that's never answered. With Winona Ryder as a Han Solo-like renegade trader named Call.