Kangaroo

Rating: 7/10 (17 September 2019)

It's hard to believe that nearly twenty years separate this movie from the similar 'Contact' (1997), which was in turn predated by even more years by 'Solaris' and 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'; from which 'Arrival' recycles the plot developments of the later stages of the latter and the protoganist's emotional baggage and benign manipulation by aliens in the former.
Amy Adams is always worth watching and it's worth sitting through the garrulous main body of the film for the ingenious surprise at the end of the film following a period of mounting tensions between the superpowers (in which America is reassuringly portrayed as the less bellicose of those interested parties that possess nukes).