Based on Robert Harris’ airport novel of the same name, Edward Berger’s elegant and absorbing Conclave is Dad Cinema™ at its finest. Its premise is rather straightforward: a cardinal experiencing a crisis of faith is tasked with managing the ancient ritual of electing a new pope. Rather quickly, however, Conclave reveals itself to be not so much a film about the Vatican as it is a parable about the failure of traditionalism to uphold the purported functions of the archaic…

Anatomy of a Fall begins in a remote mountain chalet near Grenoble, that’s home to writer and teacher Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis), his wife, author Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) and their 11-year-old son, Daniel (Milo Machado Graner). They are being visited by Zoé Solidor (Camille Rutherford), a graduate student who is conducting research for her thesis and has scheduled an interview with Sandra. The latter has recently published a book whose subject matter is said to hit close to…