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We Got This Covered’s Top 10 Movies Of 2016

As we head into the final days of 2016, it's time to look back on the past 12 months in film and reflect on the hits and the misses, the surprises and the disappointments. While this year hasn't been particularly strong, at least in our opinion, there were still a handful of notable efforts that moved us, brought us to tears, had us rolling in our seats laughing or standing on our chairs pumping our fists in the air.
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1) Arrival

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Unfurling like a beautifully rendered map to an unexpected and exotic locale, Arrival rolls in disguised as a standard alien invasion tale, but soon sheds its skin to reveal something else entirely. That something is at once vast and intimate; impressively complex and incredibly simple – and these contrasts are housed within a narrative that is perfectly paced, and brilliantly performed.

There are some familiar motifs in the story – a token woman, a race against time, a lesson about the importance of nations working together, a slow and unspoken falling in love – but, make no mistake, Arrival is a work of extreme originality. The script takes the simplest of questions and spins out an exercise in ‘thinking outside the box’ until the consequences and ramifications of that question are, frankly, mind-bending.

Arrival is an example of what’s possible when each department – from writing, to cinematography, to production design, to sound – is working in a cohesive fashion, at the top of their game. It’s an outstanding achievement in both filmmaking and storytelling and is absolutely the best film of 2016.


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