As a science-fiction film with political undertones, Arrival improves on the 2009 District 9, in which an alien orb also hovered ... in government’s use of language and theory as military ...

Alien movies achieve ... studying the aliens' language, she makes an incredible discovery of their awesome abilities. The military response to a neutral alien presence in Arrival feels incredibly ...

Warning: There are some small spoilers ahead for "Arrival ... perfect language to embody an entirely new species. An incredible amount of detail went into solving how the complex alien language ...