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 ...

"Arrival" (2016) is a science-fiction movie that is at once devastating and uplifting, and conveys both the terror and the unblinking fascination that would likely ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Director Denis Villeneuve‘s cerebral sci-fi pic Arrival has crossed the $100M mark at the worldwide box office. With $65.78M in North America and $35.13M internationally through Thursday, the current ...

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 ...