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  Review by cathy ★★★★★ 15

  memory is a strange thing. for example, i remember amy adams's performance as being one of the best of 2016, but the academy seemed to remember differently

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 19

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Okay, so now that i've sat down and thought about this, i'm ready to talk.

  This movie is 100% a masterpiece. The visuals are perfect, the acting, ESPECIALLY from Amy Adams, is wonderful. The fucking score, Jesus Christ. Everything about this movie is absolutely amazing. The aliens looked terrifying and gorgeous at the same time. I didn't breathe for a good 60 seconds when you first meet them. Still, a movie can fail with an amazing score, breathtaking cinematography, and captivating acting. But it doesn't.

  Denis Villeneuve uses the aliens as such a beautiful storytelling device. The way this story is told is heartbreaking and haunting. If you see this movie, you'll know exactly what i'm talking about. It is impossible…

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 9

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  SHE FORGOT HOW GOOD IT FELT TO BE HELD BY HIM

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 6

  still waiting for a heptapod duolingo update ...... need that lil green owl to teach me their language i wanna be besties with those intellectual space octopuses !!!!

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  Review by sree ★★★★★ 7

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  i know all sci-fi requires some suspension of disbelief but there's no way i'm gonna believe that amy adams fell in love with jeremy renner

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  Review by guilherme ★★★★ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  If I was an alien I would too only trust Amy Adams

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  Review by Wood ★★★★★ 25

  The ghosts of Stanley Kubrick and Michael Crichton have inhabited Denis Villeneuve's body.

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  Review by lucy ★★★★½ 4

  as owen wilson would say: wow

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  Review by indi ★★★★★ 1

  the last ten minutes of this are simultaneously an emotional bulldozer and a warm, protective hug

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  Review by issy 🥝 ★★★★★ 7

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  did somebody literally call for the most beautiful piece of art ever made because arrival picked up the fucking phone and they’re on the line waiting they don’t have all day quick tell them your private phone number and your wife’s dying words

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  Review by aleph beth null ★½ 160

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  i don’t like being contrarian. i mean, i love championing underappreciated films, but slamming something this immediately beloved feels awful and cynical in a way i never want to be. and i wanted so much to love this. but to me, it feels like this year’s world of tomorrow: a universally-acclaimed 101-level (and at times completely false) treatment of certain scientific ideas in service of a startlingly reactionary message. i really understand your potential objections to this characterisation, because i want to agree with them—which is why i also want to write all this to try to explain myself.

  i’ll start with everything i like: i’m a huge fan of basically every scene inside the ship, from the (actually really…

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  Review by alan ★★★★★ 1

  amy adams: hi
  the academy: i'm calling the police