Despite all of that, "Arrival" sags a bit in the middle, a point when it may lose some viewers for good. Villeneuve is a talented director, but this movie lacks a degree of heat that would have helped it hit. Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow Arrival has aliens in it, but it's not a movie about aliens.

Arrival is a good movie, focusing around the language and communication expertise of famous Dr. Arrival is a big, risky, showy movie that jumps up on its high-concept highwire and disdains a net. And yes, there are uneasy moments of silliness when it wobbles a little.

Arrival

The Times critic Manohla Dargis reviews "Arrival." In "Arrival," Amy Adams plays a linguist who tries to communicate with aliens by translating their language. Arrival movie reviews & Metacritic score: When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team is put together to investigate - including. This is not an Arrival movie review, so plenty of spoilers ahead. Ending of Arrival Movie Explained: The Future With Hannah. It is finally revealed to the audience that the scenes with Hannah and Louise. Arrival is not the kind of science-fiction film that delivers a jaw-dropping opening weekend.

Trailer Arrival

It's unlikely to earn more money than Doctor Strange, which is heading into its second week in theaters. Arrival is a subtle movie that at its heart is about Louise versus herself, dealing with the foreshadowing of grief and her own alienation. There are several potential antagonists in the movie.

Arrival is a movie unlike anything else we've been given in recent years. For example, how Adams' character approaches the task of establishing communication with lifeforms that don't relay. Amy Adams stars in an alien-visitation drama that has an eerie poetic They're dubbed heptapods, and to "talk" (this is the movie's single coolest invention), one of their digits will. Where Arrival struggles is to occupy a comfortable balancing spot between a sentimental sci-fi movie like Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and a.