Arrival

Re-watching Arrival made me realize just how little I had understood this film. It is quite likely Villeneuve’s best film. To make a science fiction film about aliens coming to Earth, offering a “weapon”—which is a form of language that will help humanity unite and prosper—so that, 3,000 years later, return to help those very same aliens—who, thanks to their non-linear perception of time, had foreseen that they would need humanity’s help in the future—what a stroke of genius, and the execution is flawless! I almost cried at the end, with “The Nature of Daylight” elevating this exceptional conclusion. Everyone needs to see this movie twice, with a few months or years between viewings, so that, in my opinion, they can fully understand and immerse themselves in this story. Villeneuve’s ranking