'The Kid With a Bike' -- 3 1/2 stars

PG-13; 1:27 running time

The boy at the story's center is Cyril, an 11-year-old recently given up to a state-run home by his unreliable father. The bike, which falls in and out of Cyril's hands with painful regularity, is a remnant of his old life, a chimerical symbol of the love he seeks from his abandoning parent. -- Michael Phillips