Top billed cast

1. 

   Amy Adams

   Louise Banks

2. 

   Jeremy Renner

   Ian Donnelly

3. 

   Forest Whitaker

   Colonel Weber

4. 

   Michael Stuhlbarg

   Agent Halpern

5. 

   Mark O'Brien

   Captain Marks

6. 

   Tzi Ma

   General Shang

7. 

   Abigail Pniowsky

   8-Year-Old Hannah

8. 

   Julia Scarlett Dan

   12-Year-Old Hannah

9. 

   Jadyn Malone

   6-Year-Old Hannah

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Reviews

A review by 20thCentury

Written by 20thCentury on 2020-07-14

Arrival has created the most profound and seamless symbolism, notably through cinematography/imagery, that may have ever been achieved to date in film.

On the surface, this appears to be a story about humans making contact with an alien species. For those with keen critical thinking skills, the seemingly foreign creatures at the beginning are not who we initially believed them to be by the end. This film amazingly weaves an abundance of profound images/clues in plain sight. Just like one of those optical illusions, which can at first appear a random assortment of dots. Yet, once your focus ...read the rest

Recommendations

1. Solaris59%
2. Moon75%
3. Contact74%
4. Finch78%
5. Paycheck62%
6. The Martian77%
7. Interstellar84%
8. Stowaway60%
9. Oblivion66%
10. Primer67%
11. Planet of the Apes76%
12. Ad Astra61%
13. THX 113864%
14. K-PAX72%
15. The Andromeda Strain71%
16. Light of My Life64%
17. Gravity71%
18. Gemini Man62%
19. Chronicle68%
20. Replicas60%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$47,000,000.00

Revenue
$203,388,186.00

Keywords

• spacecraft
• extraterrestrial technology
• loss
• time
• alien
• language
• female protagonist
• scientist
• heartbreak
• based on short story
• alien contact
• military
• alien language
• linguist
• first contact
• communication
• linguistics
• time-manipulation
• complex
• determinism
• science fiction
• wistful
• incredulous
• hopeful