12 Films to See in September

by Keith Kimbell, Metacritic Film Editor – August 28, 2017

The fall movie season kicks off with new films from Darren Aronofsky, Mike White, Stephen Frears, and the duo of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris—plus the highly anticipated Stephen King adaptation It. Get details on these and other noteworthy September film releases below.

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90 Close Encounters of the Third Kind

For its 40th anniversary, Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking 1977 sci-fi film will return to theaters in digitally remastered 4K. Richard Dreyfuss stars as a power repairman who has an encounter with a strange aircraft, resulting in an obsession he can’t explain. On his search for the the truth, he joins up with a single mother (Melinda Dillon) looking for her abducted son, and encounters a scientist (Francois Truffaut) hoping to make a breakthrough in human-alien communication. Oddly, despite the "40th anniversary" label, the version that screens this week will be Spielberg’s extended director’s cut from 1980.