A must-see experience for fans of thinking person's sci-fi that anchors its heady themes with genuinely affecting emotion and terrific performances.
Linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors. Hoping to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all of mankind. [116 min; drama, sci-fi; English]
"Both cerebral and achingly emotional, Arrival sustains a message about hope and understanding for a better humanity that audiences may need right now." — Brian Eggert, Deep Focus Review
"A Spielberg-Nolan lovechild of sorts, wondrous and mind-bending in equal parts, Denis Villeneuve's latest is a quintessential science-fiction blockbuster steeped in genre traditions and made singular by Amy Adams's transporting performance." — Devika Girish, Film Comment
"Arrival may be just the poem we need; a departure from the dystopian visions which now appear all too real, a memory of a future in which light still shines in the darkness." — Mark Kermode, The Observer
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