The Cannes Film Festival is now in full swing, opening its slate with three highly anticipated world premieres: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, and Angela Bassett; Mascha Schilinski’s thriller Sound of Falling; and Sergei Loznitsa’s drama, Two Prosecutors.

Much of the cinema world has descended on the Cannes Film Festival as the French Riviera extravaganza kicks off its 78th edition.

That’s right, festival season means one thing and one thing only: measuring the standing ovations each film gets and then using that as data point #1 in building your MFL team come September. All the trades “count those claps” (in the words of Deadline),