Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, reviewed. Denis Villeneuve wants to make a prestige science-fiction puzzler. He puzzled me, all right. Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in Arrival. Can a science-fiction film be Oscar bait? Eons ago—in 2009—this would have been a ridiculous question.

Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner are the stars of the new sci-fi drama Arrival. Amy Adams is an actress, and Jeremy Renner is also an actor. The film raises challenging questions about morality and motherhood. Caution: This article contains MASSIVE spoilers for all parts of the film, so it's recommended that you don't read it until you've seen Arrival. Would you bring a baby into the world if the child had only a day to live? What about a year?

I’ve been told time and time again that Arrival is a masterpiece, and it’s one of the best sci-fi movies of all time. I have absolutely no reason for waiting seven years to watch this film. I love Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. Denis Villeneuve also blew me away with Dune. I knew I’d like this movie, and I did, I adored it.

Two Oscar nominations – for Kathryn Bigelow’s war drama The Hurt Locker and Ben Affleck’s crime caper The Town – swiftly followed. Now he’s back in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi Arrival, a canny mix of blockbuster and arthouse that begins as 12 alien spacecraft land across the globe.