Hold on to Her review – horrific death of a two-year-old puts immigration crackdown in spotlight

Robin Vanbesien’s documentary uses the horrific killing of two-year-old Mawda Shawri in Belgium as the starting point to explore the dehumanising machinery of border policy

Co-writer of Oscar-nominated film It Was Just an Accident arrested in Iran

Mehdi Mahmoudian detained after signing statement condemning Iran’s supreme leader for recent bloodshed

‘Endlessly quotable’: why Wayne’s World is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their most rewatched comfort films is a trip back to 1992 for the unique rock comedy

Shelter review – super-soldier Jason Statham does the business as he takes on Bill Nighy in action thriller

Ric Roman Waugh’s predictable plot redeemed by fight choreography as Statham faces up to Bill Nighy, and casting of young Hamnet actor Bodhi Rae Breathnach

Seasons review – it’s Ibsen vs Peter Pan in chronicle of actors messing up their lives on and off stage

Polish director-writer Michal Grzybowski’s film has inspired flashes, but mostly eschews humour for a drearier take on the intertwining of stage and life

‘Yes, they would execute a child’: the film about a girl who has to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein

Warm, funny and heartbreaking, The President’s Cake tells the story of a brutal ruler and a girl forced to make him a present in a time of sanctions-induced hardship. Its Iraqi director Hasan Hadi remembers his own fearful childhood

Do You Love Me review – exhilarating documentary is ode to the collective courage of Lebanese people

In this freewheeling film Lana Daher draws from more than 20,000 hours of archival footage to channel the resilient spirit of Beirut

Steven Spielberg becomes an Egot after winning Grammy for John Williams documentary

Director says Grammy for best music film ‘means the world to me’ as he pays tribute to composer and collaborator

Dead Souls review – Alex Cox rides into sunset with anti-Trump spaghetti western

The Repo Man director relocates Gogol’s surreal novella to the old west in what he says will be his final film

Melania film earns $7m in US, strongest documentary debut in over a decade

Melania, however, cost significantly more than a typical documentary, at $40m to make and $35m to promote

Dozens of historic Maseratis recreated for movie about Italian car company

Film with a cast headed by Anthony Hopkins tells the story of a supercar marque that began in a small Bologna garage

Catherine O’Hara obituary

Brilliant actor known for her roles in Home Alone, Beetlejuice and Schitt’s Creek who specialised in the comedy of delusion

‘One of the greatest comic talents’: tributes paid to actor Catherine O’Hara

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Schitt’s Creek co-creator Dan Levy led tributes to the Emmy-winning actor

Melania Trump documentary opens to underwhelming reception: ‘It’s not a gripping film’

$75m Amazon-produced paean to the first lady saw empty seats and faint praise as it opened in New York City

‘Here we go again’: $75m Melania film embodies venal spirit of Trump 2.0

First lady’s big-screen documentary premieres with criticisms over $28m payday and questions over relevancy