Justin Chang

Kenneth Branagh and his screenwriter, Michael Green, have smartly overhauled the Agatha Christie story "Hallowe'en Party" , which is now set in 1947 Venice.

Roger Ross Williams directs even the bloodier wrestling scenes with an elegance that makes us aware of the artifice; this isn't exactly the Raging Bull of lucha libre movies, and it isn't trying to be.

Two queer best friends start a self-defense class for girls as a ruse to hook up with cheerleaders in a film that's both a disarmingly sweet love story and a merciless comic pummeling.