J.D. Vance’s memoir was extolled as bringing enlightenment to ignorant elites who no longer understood white working-class America, providing an explanation for how Trump won over the resentful victims of decades of growing inequality. In the subversive interpretation of Howard’s film version, Hillbilly Elegy is a timely elegy for American democracy.

Rebecca Miller has concocted a humorous contemporary exploration of love’s travails reminiscent of the comedies of remarriage that were at the core of Hollywood’s screwball heyday.

Arrival is a gift of remarkable filmmaking. We exit the cinema in awe of Villeneuve’s achievement, and of what more we now know of God’s world.