Arrival
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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.
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- S JöhanssonOctober 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.
- Florian EscureAugust 10, 2025After years, it's still great. The atmosphere, music, urgency still hits.
- destr0yrSeptember 13, 2026I absolutely love Arrival. This movie is a masterpiece—the music, the cinematography, the atmosphere, the twist, and that final, heartbreaking realization. It’s a deeply emotional and thought-provoking film, not an action-based science-fiction movie. Beneath the story of first contact is a beautifully understated love story and a meditation on time, grief, choice, and what it means to embrace life even when you know it will eventually break your heart. Once everything falls into place, the entire movie takes on a new meaning. It’s haunting, intelligent, profoundly moving, and about as close to cinematic perfection as a film can get.
- Landon MusgraveJune 9, 2026I dont understand what the issue was, They gave Ryan Gosling a computer and he figured out the alien language in about 5 minutes. Interesting movie.
- VonHaderSeptember 8, 2026A highly intellectual, no guns blazing, sci-fi that explores how we would have to go about communicating with aliens and our perception of time. The twist at the end will simultaneously slap you in the face and stab you in the heart. Bring tissues
- 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.
- 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.
- 23_SkidooSeptember 8, 2026When you look up "Sci-Fi" in the dictionary, this movie is the one that should top the list. This is among my top five favorite sci-fi movies. It doesn't shy away from the SCIENCE, but it presents it in a way integral to the story, which only elevated this to an instant classic. It has infinite rewatchability. Adams is a Joy, a treasure. Renner represents us, the audience, in his reveling of her character and her bravery. Watch it, then watch it again. Bravo!
- 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.
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Arrival was released on November 10, 2016.
Arrival was directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Arrival has a runtime of 1h 56m.
Arrival was produced by Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, Karen Lunder, Aaron Ryder, David Linde, Dan Cohen.
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.
The key characters in Arrival are Louise Banks (Amy Adams), Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker).
Arrival is rated PG-13.
Arrival is a Science Fiction, Drama, Mystery film.
Arrival has an audience rating of 8.3 out of 10.
Arrival had a budget of $47M.
Arrival has made $203.4M at the box office.