Ten years after Denis Villeneuve’s mind-bending sci-fi hit, EW breaks down the aliens’ true purpose, the mystery of Amy Adams ...

"Arrival" is a thinking human's alien-invasion movie. The mood is austere, the story oblique (at first), and the invading aliens are somewhat obscured by a home-world mist they've brought down to ...

“Arrival” is not your typical sci-fi/alien movie and, in many ways, is not what mainstream audiences have come to expect. There’s little in the way of pyrotechnics, and no violent human or alien ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...