The nonprofit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has monitored the skies for alien communication for 53 years, and scientists have yet to hear a single word. (discovermagazine.com)
SYNOPSIS: A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications If aliens landed on earth, how would we react and how would we try to communicate with them? (flickeringmyth.com)
While she is joined by Jeremy Renner playing Ian Donnelly, a scientist paired up with her in the governmental mission of alien communication, it is Adams» Dr. Banks that drives the narrative forward and comes out of «Arrival» as the film's sole lead. (rogerebert.com)