Review: Denis Villeneuve achieves a masterpiece with the transcendent "Arrival"
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Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival is a film of such vast metaphysical vision and grand emotional scope that I cannot fully believe it was crafted by human hands.
Walking out of the theatre, my breath quite literally taken away by what I have seen, I sit in stunned silence on a bench outside the auditorium for several minutes. I try to jot some thoughts down. …
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