Table 19, The Sense of an Ending, Personal Shopper, Burning Sands, My Scientology Movie

Table 19

The Sense of an Ending

Personal Shopper

Burning Sands

My Scientology Movie

Quick capsules on a pentad of March movies:

Clouds of Sils Maria

Olivier Assayas' "Clouds of Sils Maria" is the best, richest, most intellectually stimulating film so far this year, with thrillingly alive performances by the indispensable Juliette Binoche as a legendary actress named Maria Enders and Kristen Stewart as Maria's personal assistant, Valentine (pronounced Valen-teen). Here's a smart person's entertainment that leaves you with a great deal to think and talk about after the lights go up.

Something in the Air

"Jackal" director Olivier Assayas sets his semiautobiographical new film "Something in the Air" in 1971, when the French counterculture is dawning just as the American scene sets.