Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’

Only one ticket sold for premiere of film about US first lady at Vue’s flagship London branch as insiders question launch strategy

Send Help review – Sam Raimi returns with gore-laced plane-crash survival face-off

Starring Rachel McAdams, this gets off to a promising start, but the plot twists are derivative and the tacked-on violence descends into exasperating silliness

Black cakes and branded buckets: welcome to the White House premiere for Brett Ratner’s Melania movie

Monochrome catering was all the rage at the VIP screening on Saturday for Ratner’s officially sanctioned $75m feature-length documentary about the First Lady. Have the photos whetted your appetite?

The Wrecking Crew review – Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa tear up the screen

The abundantly muscled action stars are estranged siblings avenging their father in this enjoyable action-comedy throwback

‘What they’re doing is the worst of humanity’: Sundance festival stars back anti-ICE protest

Elijah Wood joined protest in Utah’s Park City in memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, while Natalie Portman said what is happening is ‘absolutely horrific’

Lure review – eligible bachelors dying for romance in Saw-style dating game

The prospect of a stay in a stately pile with a charming young woman is a draw for these hapless gents, but this horror farce never lives up to its promising premise

‘Pushes the nostalgia buttons’: why Enchanted is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers picking their go-to comfort films is a tribute to Amy Adams and what might be her greatest performance

Silence and Cry review – deeply strange 1960s erotic ballet meditating on Hungary’s history and politics

Director Miklós Jancsó creates a bizarre psychodrama set after the fall of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet republic, encompassing postwar trauma and erotic overtones

‘Magical’: how I taught Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor to sing like folk troubadours in The History of Sound

Singer-songwriter Sam Amidon had just three weeks to make the two stars sound like seasoned balladeers. He recalls their charged harmonies in the little shed at the bottom of his garden

Los Saldos review – prodigal big-city son reconnects with his heritage in rural Spain

Raúl Capdevila Murillo’s debut documentary follows the director’s journey back to his farming family, whose way of life is newly endangered

‘It was a little scary at times’: the hilarious, heartbreaking film about one man’s riotous death

When André Ricciardi found out he had cancer, he asked a friend to film his final years. André Is an Idiot, the result, mixes in stop-motion puppetry to create an astonishing record of an extraordinary life

Union County review – an affecting Will Poulter lifts quiet addiction drama

The British actor gives a convincing performance as a man going through the drug court system in a grounded look at rehabilitation

‘For the authoritarian, culture is the enemy’: Salman Rushdie talks recovery and resilience at Sundance

A new documentary explores the author’s physical and spiritual healing from the 2022 knife attack that almost killed him

Imagine review – profound conversations meet trippy visuals in one-of-a-kind adventure

Taika Waititi, Yael Stone and Ian Thorpe are among the big names lending voices to this ‘chaotically strange’ animation drawing on Indigenous perspectives

The Gallerist review – Natalie Portman flounders in tiring art world caper

The Oscar winner can’t find the right tone for this grating comedy which also wastes Jenna Ortega, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Catherine Zeta-Jones