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Review of by Jay Carr for Boston Globe — 15 Aug 2004

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The Arrival looks and feels awfully small and cheap. In that way, the movie does feel like those science-fiction classics of the ’50s. But back then, sweaty heroes didn’t utter lines of ’90s dialogue like ”I look like a can of smashed a–holes.

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This review of The Arrival (1996) was written by and published by Boston Globe on 15 Aug 2004.

The Arrival has generally received mixed reviews.

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