Requires viewers who can think

Rating: 9/10 (21 May 2017)

Alien: Covenant is a worthy successor to Alien and Prometheus.
Beautifully filmed, it explores the aftermath of Elizabeth Shaw's desire to visit the Engineer home world.
If you're after unrelenting terror, this movie isn't for you. It is far more cerebral and plays instead with the topics of creation, morality, evil and corruption.
I find it somewhat disturbing that the 'best' user review on this forum at the time of writing (by http://www.imdb.com/user/ur8378692/) has been up-voted by so many viewers. The reason being that each and every one of the 36 alleged faults can be refuted so easily. There isn't room here to write a full rebuttal, but here are the first five. Every single one of the remaining criticisms is baseless. It's a shockingly bad attempt at finding flaws.
1. There is a ship full off over 1000 sleeping passengers. Yet they have just one android to look after it all. Why not have 3, 10 or even 20! They don't age and surely you need a backup.

It is a massive assumption to imply that the dormant passengers need much looking after.

2. A rogue unexplained solar flare hits the ship disabling it, and Walter says they should leave the area asap. But instead they go further into it.

No they don't. They go to a different 'area'

3. An astronaut outside the ship picks up a stray signal through his helmets two-way radio, that somehow appears in visual form on the glass of his helmet? Yet the giant ship with the radio dish right next to him misses it!

As was explained for this very reason in the dialogue, he was outside the ship's communications buffers.

4. How did they determine the artist from the white noise? What they found later no-way explains why they sent a song into space for no apparent reason!

It was a choppy radio signal with a low signal-to-noise ratio, but strong enough to pick up the vocals (and recognised as such by someone familiar with the song). We are not party to *why* a hijacked Engineer ship broadcasts a repeated message. Perhaps it's like a car alarm. Who cares? It's not important.

5. They are able to trace a stray video signal to a planet two weeks away at star-ship speed.

The relative speed of the ship and the planet was small (the crew were talking about the series of 'jumps' that they were taking, and they had clearly just come out of such a jump).