When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - lead by expert linguist Louise Banks - are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers - and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.

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Based on 4 Arrival Cinema reviews, Arrival gets an average Cinema review score of 88. The score for all versions is 88 based on a total of 20 reviews.

5/5

www.empireonline.comCinema

Like all the best sci-fi, Arrival has something pertinent to say about today's world; particularly about the importance of communication

2708d ago

A-/A+

theplaylist.netCinema

a film that dances with concepts so colossal they’ve rather obliterated most of the previous films that have attempted to grapple with them

2708d ago

B/A

thefilmstage.comCinema

In Arrival, prolific Québécois director Denis Villeneuve ponders the ramifications and possibilities of a potential first-contact between human beings and an advanced alien race...

2708d ago