Our Friday best: Big Top at Mall of America, MSP Film Festival, Cactus Blossoms & more
Royal Canadian Circus
The big top has gone up at the Mall of America — the first stop for this circus’ North American tour. Ninth-generation daredevil Joseph Dominik Bauer serves as ringmaster for an international cast that includes the Flying Cortez trapeze family, the Chicago Boyz Acrobatic Team (from “America’s Got Talent”), motorcycle thrill riders and a human Slinky. (4 & 7:30 p.m. Fri.; noon, 4 & 7:30 p.m. Sat.; 1 & 5 p.m. Sun. Mall of America East Lot, 60 E. Broadway, Bloomington. royalcanadiancircus.com)
MELISSA WALKER
‘Benediction’
Terence Davies may be the most acclaimed writer/director in the entire