Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

The final movie trailer and movie poster for Arrival (2016) has been released for the Paramount Pictures film. The final trailer for Arrival features new scenes. Many of those new scenes seem to be ...

“Arrival” takes an age-old science fiction premise – Aliens have landed; what are their intentions? – and builds a taut mystery around it. Yet those expecting a whiz-bang film should be prepared for a ...

"Arrival" (2016) is a science-fiction movie that is at once devastating and uplifting, and conveys both the terror and the unblinking fascination that would likely ...

In a time when the future looks pretty abysmal, I needed a movie like “Arrival.” Do not fall for its marketing campaign. Paramount sold it as yet another alien invasion flick where a nondescript Other ...

WASHINGTON — Denis Villeneuve is one of our most fascinating filmmakers. He might just be the best Canadian-born director since David Cronenberg (“Videodrome,” “The Fly,” “Dead Ringers”) at building a ...

She is a mother, so we know she’s strong, and she is grieving the loss of her child, so we know why she’s willing to take huge risks. The character Amy Adams plays in “Arrival” is a linguist who, as ...

As with all of Villeneuve's films, be they thrillers or science fiction, Arrival is visually arresting. At first, the director lays the film out as a mystery about whether humanity and ...