Amy Adams in “Arrival”; Jan Thijs, Paramount Pictures(NEW YORK) — Here’s a look at the new movies opening nationwide today:
* Arrival: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forrest Whitaker make up an elite team assembled to investigate alien spaceships that have landed in 12 locations around the world in this sci-fi thriller. Adams’ character must beat the clock to find a way of communicating with the extraterrestrials, as humankind teeters on the verge of global war. Rated PG-13.
* Almost Christmas: Danny Glover plays a retired automotive engineer who invites his dysfunctional family home for the holidays a year after losing his wife. However, getting his grown children to survive together under the same roof for five days will take a Christmas miracle. Gabrielle Union, Omar Epps and Mo’Nique also star. Rated PG-13.
* Shut In: This thriller stars Naomi Watts as Mary, a child psychologist who lives an isolated existence in rural New England following the death of her husband in a horrific car accident. The tragedy also leaves her 18-year-old stepson, Stephen — played by Charlie Heaton — bedridden and catatonic. When one of Mary’s young patients, played by Jason Tremblay, goes missing and is presumed dead, she becomes convinced she and Stephen are being haunted by the boy’s ghost. Rated PG-13.
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