Does “Arrival” give a realistic portrayal of how a linguist might try to communicate with aliens? Everybody loves “Arrival.” Everybody wants to be Amy Adams [who plays a linguist who ...

"Arrival," based on the short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, focuses on humans trying to communicate with mysterious aliens ... we waste this medium just writing down the same thing ...

Warning: There are some small spoilers ahead for "Arrival ... writing that on the glass, the window in Louise's house. That is there to reflect the big white wall in the [alien] ship." ...

Hailing from director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Scicario), Arrival was never going to be a predictable alien invasion film. Instead, the plot follows Dr Louise Banks (Amy Adams), a linguistics ...