Film-Forward

The biopic of wrestler Mildred Burke is at its best when it embraces the pageantry and over-the-top performances of the squared circle.

For now-adult fans who grew up watching Robert Pattinson in “The Twilight Saga,” there may be a particular appeal here in a three-way scene with not one, but two Pattinsons.

Emmanuel Mouret’s, sharply written, breezy, and engaging chamber piece opened the annual festival.

The strong and ambitious Daughters is the most assured of the bunch.

Perhaps director Walter Salles’s best film since Central Station.

Director James Mangold focuses less on biographical details and more on Bob Dylan’s music, which might single-handedly bring the folk movement back into vogue.

It’s doubtful Nicole Kidman has ever been as emotionally and physically vulnerable as she is here.

An outwardly quiet movie that is deceptively eventful.

Another cracking movie that delivers on the thrills, twists, and cheeky British humor one would expect from an Aardman Animations production.