I got recommended, by one of my teachers, to watch the new film Arrival (2016). The film is about 12 alien spacecraft's, at once, all landing on earth in a sporadic pattern and the government hires a linguist to study the aliens language in order to interpret it and communicate with them.
As soon as i watched the film it instantly struck me as a great film to exemplify amazing shots and use of camera movements. One of my favourite shots in the whole film was when Dr. Louise Banks and some of the other characters are flying over the sea coast at night time in a helicopter (shown below). I liked that shot because the shot slowly retracts with the helicopter and also doubles as an astounding establishing shot. In fact, almost all of the establishing shots are amazing through this film, especially the shot that pans over the alien spacecraft that is placed in Montana.
The plot is incredibly intriguing and challenges the typical conventions of films and their time sequence. Unlike most films, Arrival doesn't follow a linear time sequence. Instead it makes you believe that the events where chronological and the actions that occur were a consequence of the events that started the movie until the end when it is revealed that those occurrences where in actuality, the ending of the movie and the result of the films actions. 
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