Storyline
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Directors
Cast
Andrew Shaver, Tzi Ma, Jeremy Renner, Mark Camacho, Larry Day, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amy Adams, Brent Skagford, Joe Cobden, Albert Kwan, Russell Yuen, Dan Duran, Abdelghafour Elaaziz, Mustafa Haidari, John Sanford Moore, Julian Casey, Tony Robinow, Abdul Ayoola, Ruth Chiang, Ola Sturik, Bineyam Girma, Sabrina Reeves, Philippe Hartmann, Nathaly Thibault, Shawn Campbell, Adrien Benn, Max Walker, Karen Belfo, Abigail Pniowsky, Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles, Lorne Brass, Mark O'Brien, Julia Scarlett Dan, Jadyn Malone, Carmela Nozza Guizzo, Pat Kiely, Frank Schorpion, Lucas Chartier-Dessert, Lucy Van Oldenbarneveld, Sonia Vigneault, Anana Rydvald, Sergiy Marchenko, Brittany Teo, Chistian Jadah, Genevieve Sirois, Daniel Esteban, Hal Roberts, Matthew Willson, Michael Nangreaves, Robert D. Morais, Reda Guerinik, Sasha Samar, Kathleen Stavert, Kattia Thony, Leisa Reid, Gurdeep Ahluwalia, Brian Dunstan, Lori Graham, Orla Johannes, Sangita Patel, Tammie Sutherland, Camille Ross, Chloë Bellande, Laurean Adrian Parau, Leslie Baker, Christian Jadah, Alex M. Yeuh, Dave Campbell, Alexander Da Mota, Akul Dang, Frank Fiola
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Reviews
100
This is riveting, dizzying stuff from Villeneuve.
91
Arrival, the shimmering apex of Villeneuve’s run of form that started back in 2010 with “Incendies,” calmly, unfussily and with superb craft, thinks its way out of the black hole that tends to open up when ideas like time travel, alien contact and the next phase of human evolution are bandied about.
90
Anchored by an internalized performance from Amy Adams rich in emotional depth, this is a grownup sci-fi drama that sustains fear and tension while striking affecting chords on love and loss.
80
Arrival is a big, risky, showy movie which jumps up on its high-concept highwire and disdains a net. And yes, there are moments of silliness when it wobbles a little, but it provides you with spectacle and fervent romance.
80
Arrivals becomes an unexpectedly moving rumination on life’s bigger questions by its end. While it looks to other worlds, its main pleasure turns out to be the most intimate of questions.
