As with all of Villeneuve's films, be they thrillers or science fiction, Arrival is visually arresting. At first, the director lays the film out as a mystery about whether humanity and ...

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“Arrival” takes an age-old science fiction premise – Aliens have landed; what are their intentions? – and builds a taut mystery around it. Yet those expecting a whiz-bang film should be prepared for a ...

WASHINGTON — Denis Villeneuve is one of our most fascinating filmmakers. He might just be the best Canadian-born director since David Cronenberg (“Videodrome,” “The Fly,” “Dead Ringers”) at building a ...

She is a mother, so we know she’s strong, and she is grieving the loss of her child, so we know why she’s willing to take huge risks. The character Amy Adams plays in “Arrival” is a linguist who, as ...

Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” is the Quebecois “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” which is to say a soggy, sci-fi romance, once you get to the end of it, anyway. But I seriously did not fall in love ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

The new sci-fi film Arrival posits a first contact with aliens that shuns a war of the worlds in favor of a peaceful interaction of civilizations. It's an approach that likely would resemble a ...

The alien spacecraft in “Arrival” arrive by the dozen, each of the looming, egg-sliced-in-half-shaped wonders looking like the latest in KitchenAid gadgetry writ large. All around the globe, their ...

In a time when the future looks pretty abysmal, I needed a movie like “Arrival.” Do not fall for its marketing campaign. Paramount sold it as yet another alien invasion flick where a nondescript Other ...