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The Arrival

The Arrival

1996 · Movie · 1h 55m · PG-13

The highest scoring of the two films in The Arrival series, ahead of The Second Arrival (39).

Synopsis

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

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SourceRatingWeight
IMDb6.2/1042%
Rotten Tomatoes65%21%
Metacritic56/10021%
TMDB6.0/10892 votes16%
Balasaur Score61100%

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