Arrival is the finest first contact film since District 9 and takes its place alongside that work and Spielberg’s standard setter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as one of the best tales of the initial meeting between humans and extraterrestrials ever told on film. (Note: Comparisons to 2001: A Space Odyssey are unfair; Kubrick’s masterpiece occupies a unique and special place.) Arrival earns this distinction by way of its thoroughly original take on the alien life forms that come to Earth in 12 huge elliptical ships that hover off the ground in an inexplicable set of locations that include Russia, China, Australia, and Sudan. The aliens in Arrival not only sport an unexpected look, but their manner of communication is something we have not seen in a mainstream movie before.
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Arrival Review
Posted: October 23, 2016 in 2016 London Film Festival, Reviews, Science FictionTags: Amy Adams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Denis Villeneuve, District 9, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner
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Avengers: Age of Ultron Review
Posted: April 26, 2015 in Action, ReviewsTags: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Elizabeth Olsen, James Spader, Jeremy Renner, Joss Whedon, Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, Robert Downey, Scarlett Johansson, Stan Lee, Stellan Skarsgård
Have often do you see a film that starts well only to falter at the midway point and limp to a conclusion that leaves you wondering what might have been? Conversely, how seldom do you see a film that is going off the rails in the early going, yet somehow manages to correct its mistakes after halftime and eke out a win?
Count Avengers: Age of Ultron as one of the rare films that appears headed toward failure, yet somehow course corrects halfway through and finishes strong enough to be regarded as a mild success. As summer blockbuster entertainment, you can call it necessary, but not sufficient. (more…)
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