The Linguist

Here is the rarest of rare opportunities for linguist Louise (Amy Adams) to show her consummate skills in interpreting cephalopod alien language. With some assistance from Ian (Jeremmy Renner), army physicist, Louise gets going on the path to preventing global catastrophe, finding love, and perhaps seeing the future. Somewhere down the line Arrival loses the script in terms of delivering a true emotional connect, Perhaps it is a lot less overwhelming than critics are currently making of it. In a genre that is increasingly taking off, this is no The Martian nor Interstellar

13.5/20

Think slowly

What stands out in Pawn Sacrifice is the intensity and the idiosyncracy of Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire), as he takes on the formidable Boris Spassky (Liev Schrieber). Did not think that watching chess in a movie could be such an exciting endeavor. The hard work of one Fischer leads to American brownie points at the height of the Cold War

14.5/20

Secret Space

 Of all the secrets of the universe that are shared between Agent J (Will Smith) and Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), there is one secret that K refuses to share. It appears that the same has to do with the Biglodyan alien invasion and the fact that K failed to contain it. J must travel back in time, to July 15^th 1969 – a day before the lunar quest lifted off from Cape Canaveral – to hook up with the younger Agent K (Josh Brolin) to try to alter the course of human-alien history. If the purpose of Men in Black III was to portray something unexpected, then the same did not happen at all. Save and except for - the secret we spoke of first, and why the same needed to be kept a secret at all from K. Men in Black III remains a watchable franchise as always, and well on its way to many more sequels

13.5/20