A good example of the thinking man's science fiction film. Early review.

Rating: 9/10 (30 October 2016)

Arrival may be marketed as a creepy alien invasion movie, but rest assured, Arrival has more in common with offerings such as 1951's The Day the Earth Stood still, Contact or The Man from Earth than it does ID4, or something of that ilk.
Arrival is the newest output from Denis Villanueve, if you are not familiar with his work, think of Christopher Nolan, if Nolan knew how to compose a beautiful shot and write endings.
Amy Adams stars as the brainy linguist, brought in by Uncle Sam to attempt to figure just how in the hell to communicate with the alien race, who have inexplicably appeared out of the night and seem to be happy to more or less loiter in a number of creepy looking spacecrafts all over the planet.
To get into plot points would be quite spoilery and therefore we'll suffice it to say that Arrival is a brilliantly crafted film with visually arresting camera work and a haunting score.
At this point I'm comfortable in placing it into the top 5 of 2016.