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Arrival
At the point when twelve puzzling shuttles show up the world over, etymology teacher Louise Banks is entrusted with translating the dialect of the evident outsider guests.
5 June 1966, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1 February 1965, Nigeria
21 December 1963, Montréal, Québec, Canada
7 May 1984, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
12 April 1964, Montréal, Québec, Canada
28 April 1972
April 01, 2017
Arrival is at its best early on, when everything is-figuratively speaking-up in the air.
March 15, 2017
The result is a wondrous achievement, one that combines mystery and meaning in a way so rarely found in mainstream movies.
November 11, 2016
Arrival plays with your head as gently as any sci-fi thriller I can remember.
May 10, 2017
Arrival is bold, emotionally-resonant and poignant. It's science fiction at its most beautiful with a finale that will simultaneously make your heart swell and break.
March 10, 2017
... the most cerebral of first contact films, a science fiction drama about communicating across cultures and across species and even across time without a common language, while failing to communicate within our own world.
November 14, 2016
The best film of the year to date, ambitious in conception and extraordinary in execution, has arrived.
March 23, 2017
Walks a delicate balance between science fiction spectacle and art house head trip.
November 11, 2016
Watching it, I was excited that such a strange piece of science fiction got made-and disappointed ...
November 11, 2016
Learning Heptapodese seems easy compared to the tough talks Americans need to have with each other.
November 15, 2016
The revelation here is Villeneuve, who expands on the symphonic pacing showcased last year in the drug war drama Sicario. Even though the concept of Arrival is far-out fiction, Villeneuve treats it with no less detail or urgency.
November 11, 2016
Those expecting a whiz-bang film should be prepared for a more cerebral and emotional experience, admirable for its ambition and tone, if not wholly satisfying in its payoff.