While the pulpier sci-fi stories and movies like Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day lean into the bombastic alien invasion trappings, one of Arrival‘s greatest assets is how it subverts this trope.

Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival might seem like a basic sci-fi movie on the surface, but it has a very complicated timeline that’s easy to misunderstand. The film tells the story of a professional linguist ...

"Arrival," remarkably, tugs at the emotions and intellect with equal insistence. In a quiet, internalized performance, Amy Adams plays a linguist given a pioneer's task of communicating with ...