Arrival

Name: Arrival
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
Released: 2016-11-10
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 7.6

2016 · Movie · PG-13 · 116 min · ★ 7.6 · 88% critics

DramaScience FictionMystery

After alien crafts land around the world, a specialist in language is brought in by the military to figure out what the visitors want. With an international effort underway, she must determine whether their arrival signals peace or danger, while human tensions threaten to derail everything.

Based on Story of Your Life

Also known as Story of Your Life · L'arrivée

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Years: 2016
Release date: 2016-11-10
Language: English
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 116 min
Critic score: 88/100
TMDB rating: 7.6/10 (19,405 votes)
Box office: $203,388,186
Budget: $50,000,000

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You’ll like Arrival if you enjoy reflective, communication-focused sci-fi over action, with a calm but tense mystery; Not for you if you want nonstop thrills or a straightforward plot, similar to Contact and Interstellar may disappoint.

Pros: thoughtful alien contact; gripping linguistics; memorable performances | Cons: slow pacing; confusing structure; uneven execution