Arrival
Directed by Denis Villeneuve7.994%83%7.6
Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors.
Arrival Ratings & Reviews
- S JohnsonOctober 22, 2024Just watched it again, and honestly, it might be even better the second time around.
- HaHaHarvey44May 8, 2025What if aliens show up in giant obsidian coffee pods, and instead of nuking New York, they ask if we want to learn sentence structure? It’s a slow, thoughtful, brain-melting meditation on language, perception, and time, basically Independence Day for people who read books without pictures. Amy Adams is deciphering grief one inky Heptapod swirl at a time. These aliens don’t speak, they mist-blast entire concepts into the air like intergalactic Rorschach tests, and somehow it makes total sense. By the end, the twist doesn’t explode, it just lands in your chest like a memory you haven’t lived yet, quietly rearranging your understanding of time. There’s no war, no special effects show, just the terrifying realisation that communication might be the most powerful weapon, or gift, we’ve got.
- ayayronApril 6, 2025Non-zero sum game
- Florian EscureAugust 10, 2025After years, it's still great. The atmosphere, music, urgency still hits.
- sixx841d agoAnother film I’ve watched at least 10 times. Love it, different take on alien landings. Probably need to view a couple of times to get the most from it.
- M08YOctober 1, 2025Arrival is one of the more unique and interesting sci-fi movies in the last 10 years. I'll be entirely honest, I didnt think much of Arrival when I saw it in 2017, but rewatching it now I certainly can see it's merit. While hardly thrill-a-minute, Arrival does manage to make an engaging film out of what seems to be a fairly mundane idea. As it turns out, the idea of a language professor decrypting an Alien language is actually quite interesting. Not much actually happens in the film, but don't let that trick you into thinking it's boring. The audio and visuals were all spot on even if slightly uneventful. There is next to no spectable in Arrival.
- ርልዪረJuly 30, 2025This is a beautifully crafted piece of filmic art, slow moving shots through cleverly lit atmospheric sets, common sense editing within scenes giving the feeling that you are changing your own point of view to see what is happening. The development of the main character is handled so flawlessly well, you can understand her drives/reactions so quickly and fully very early within the film. And finally the music.The soundtrack is so essential to creating the feel of this film that without the lilting strings, prolonged chords, curious horn sounds and vocalisations, a vast amount of emotional content would not even exist. All of this tied into a truly novel concept with regards to why and how alien life contacts the human race results in a truly outstanding sci-fi experience. I recommend watching this alone or, if you are with others, suppress the urge to speak, because moving focus away from the subdued flow of this film will interfere with how deeply you can engross yourself in the content and potentially how it may affect you.
- Daryl WilliamsSeptember 2, 2025Hands down the best on screen portrayal of what would happen if Aliens came to earth. A great Sci-fi film with an awesome Heart-Wrenching story throughout. Watched 3 times now over the years.
- Sam3d agohad trouble with the flashbacks because of face blindness. I fear it is terminal
- mazen982November 2, 2025It's on my top 4 on letterboxd....
- makdelartOctober 30, 2025Too much pomp and sentimentality.
- OnyxVeraOctober 26, 2025Truly an interesting movie, it has a semi slow start but overall a great movie.
- HjortlandSeptember 18, 2025Love this movie!
- J.Guillaume D-IsabelleSeptember 20, 2025A real movie about alien
- StairwaytothestarsAugust 5, 2025Captivating with great acting and a fantastic twist that is mind bending, emotional, profound, complex, and you will never see it coming in ARRIVAL.
