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  Review by cathy ★★★★★ 12

  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

  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 Wood ★★★★★ 25

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

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 8

  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 sree ★★★★★ 6

  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 ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 4

  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 lucy ★★★★½ 4

  as owen wilson would say: wow

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  Review by jpark ★★★★★ 34

  In light of recent events, I'm reminded of Fermi's paradox. A cynical and unsettling notion which suggests the reason we've never been contacted by extraterrestrial intelligent life is that the no civilization has survived long enough to innovate to that level. Or, in simpler terms, that the fundamental nature of intelligent life is to ultimately destroy itself. As tech and sciences progress further and further, what matters is how we allocate that technology; what leaders we elect to control it and how we as a populace influence it's purpose. It all becomes a question of what we as a species value. On one end of the spectrum; there's science, progress and compassion. On the other, there's seems to be paranoia,…

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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 Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 65

  more filmmakers should (follow suit and) go full Tarkovsky in wide release form. Villeneuve had already proven himself to be one of the most versatile filmmakers in the medium -- as if we needed any more proof -- and it goes without saying that Bradford Young is a complete colossus with the camera.

  why didn't anybody warn me about Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight bookending the film? I can't even listen to that piece (in absence of a heartbreaking cinematic context) without tearing up; imagine what the introductory and concluding sequences herein did to me.

  if you could see beyond the boundaries of your vision and comprehend the entire vastness of your environment -- all that is before you, beside you, behind you -- would you still traverse the same trail, or would you tour time through disparate doors?

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  Review by aleph beth null ★½ 115

  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 issy 🥝 ★★★★★ 4

  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