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Rating: 8/10 (15 February 2017)

The Arrival
Oddly enough, alien abductions decreased around the same time human waistlines increased.
So our girth could be the reason the UFOs in this sci-fi film decided to land instead.
When alien spacecraft strategically position themselves around the globe, a senior military official (Forest Whitaker) recruits a linguist professor, Louisa (Amy Adams), to commune with the visitors.
Partnered with a theoretical physicist (Jeremy Renner), Louisa begins to decrypt the cephalopod's pictorial form of communication, all the while suffering from vivid dreams of a dying daughter she has never met.
Meanwhile, the world's superpowers prepare to annihilate them if their purpose is not uncovered.
With its cerebral stance on an alien incursion, Arrival challenges the status quo sci-fi shoot'em ups. Its violence simmers in the background, while its foreground dazzles with an astounding time-travel tale concerning the human condition.
Incidentally, the sooner we decode their language the sooner we'll understand their Tweets.
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