Close Encounters of the Human Kind: Arrival

ArrivalDirected by Denis VillenueveOpens November 11
The big American studio pictures of Denis Villenueve have, so far, ridden the line between mass-market pulp and adult-movie seriousness. Prisoners and Sicario are both essentially procedurals with extra attention paid to lead characters’ roiling emotions—the grief and rage of a father (Hugh Jackman in the former) whose kid has disappeared, and the frustration of a law-enforcement officer (Emily Blunt in the latter) whose role in t