"Arrival" is a thinking human's alien-invasion movie. The mood is austere, the story oblique (at first), and the invading aliens are somewhat obscured by a home-world mist they've brought down to ...

Alien invasion stories have fascinated us since H.G. Wells published The War of the Worlds (1898). The acclaimed sci-fi novel has inspired countless adaptations, including Steven Spielberg’s 2005 ...