OUT 19 JUNE

Jesse Eisenberg is Marcel Marceau in a bio-drama centred not on mimeartistry but on the stage icon’s prefame role in the French Resistance. Of course, Marceau’s gift for saying it without words crops up often, in both light and life-threatening moments. If Eisenberg isn’t quite up to the physical challenge, he essays a sweet, believable bond with the Jewish children Marceau helps smuggle to safety. On-the-nose juxtapositions of innocence (kids’ choir) and savagery (cold-eyed executions) nudge the film towards formulaic, but the final escape bid is suitably heart-inmouth. Matthew Leyland