2016 · sci-fi · drama
Arrival
Directed by Denis Villeneuve1h 56m2016
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Our read: Arrival (2016) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive sci-fi · drama entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Arrival counts for a challenge
Neutral, measured, gentle sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- measured
- inventive
- epic-stakes
Watching Arrival tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Arrival feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a cerebral first-contact story about love, loss, and time.”
Skip it tonight — You want action or scary aliens instead of quiet wonder.
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