Arrival (2016)

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7.9	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Denis Villeneuve

Starring (View all)

Amy Adams
Louise Banks

Jeremy Renner
Ian Donnelly

Forest Whitaker
Colonel Weber

Michael Stuhlbarg
Agent Halpern

Mark O'Brien
Captain Marks

Tzi Ma
General Shang

Abigail Pniowsky
8-Year-Old-Hannah

Julia Scarlett Dan
12-Year-Old-Hannah

Written by

Eric Heisserer
(screenplay by)

Ted Chiang

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A good movie

8 years ago at Nov 20 18:06

johanlefourbe

1 vote

Right now, according to IMDb, this is the best movie released in 2016 (I'm not sure if it will last but we'll see soon enough) so you can't argue that I did try not to show the best movie possible to my filmclub. It's such a shame that it didn't turn out to be really amazing after all. I mean, I thought it was visually really neat, Amy Adams gave a solid performance and I really loved the fact tha... read more

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7 years, 9 months ago at Feb 19 19:11

Gab Mega

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Arrival, es hermosa, puedo decir sin tener miedo, que es una de las mejores peliculas del 2016, y una gran ejemplo de como hacer una historia compleja, pero digerible para los que no entiendan o se les hace difícil comprender la ciencia ficción en el cine. No les quiero decir nada sobre lo que va este film, ya que lo tienen que vivir, tal como lo fue con Gravity o Odisea espacial 2001.
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7 years, 9 months ago at Feb 21 17:06

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Notes:
*I've heard this is really good, but it's a slow burner.
*So I have been sort of skeptical to check it out, but I decided to go ahead and check it out.
*I mean the cast is pretty good.
*Denis Villeneuve also directed Prisoners and Sicario which were both pretty darn good.
*I have seen all of Eric Heisserer's movies so far with the Nightmare on Elm Street remake... read more

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When 12 mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors.

Release date: 11 November 2016

Tags: Sci-fi (19), 2016 (19), 2010s (11), Aliens (10), Drama (9), Mystery (8), Usa (4), Science Fiction (4), Thriller (3), Time Travel (3), Alien (3), Language (2), Military (2), Time (2), Terminal Illness (2), Based On Short Story (2), Cia (1), Politics (1), Chinese (1), China (1)

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