One Child Nation review – China’s monstrous plan to shape the future

This powerful and upsetting documentary examines the legacy of a brutal policy that limited couples to a single baby

Normal review – lawyers in bikinis to dogma in the doll’s house

Adele Tulli’s elegantly deadpan documentary challenges the sexual stereotypes that prevail across the generations

Is The Farewell the olive branch the US-China culture war needs?

A film depicting a young Chinese-American woman’s experience highlights differences between the two countries – but may also signal hope for the future

‘Dad described the plot of Psycho at the dinner table’: how my parents taught me to love film

The Guardian film critic on how his mother and father shaped his relationship with cinema

For Sama review – searing story of a Syrian warzone baby

A student documenting the siege of Aleppo kept filming when she became pregnant. The result is a profoundly moving study of horror and hope

Jada Pinkett Smith: ‘The word “wife”: it’s a golden cage, swallow the key’

She put her film career on hold and let husband Will Smith become a megastar. Now Jada Pinkett Smith’s candid chat show is opening up truthful conversations around kitchen tables everywhere

Nepotism in the movies: it’s time to call out the acting school of mum and dad

If you’ve got famous parents, your chances in the film industry appear to improve exponentially. If we’re serious about equality, this has to change

Who Do You Think You Are? review – Harry Potter and the diamond heist

Daniel Radcliffe is the first of a new crop of celebrities to get the genealogy show’s treatment – and the tale he uncovers is truly tragic

Notes from a Hollywood divorce: ‘We had a primal connection. But we hung by a thread for years’

I wrote a part for my husband in my first movie. By the time filming was over, so was our marriage

Josh O’Connor: ‘This film is as important as I, Daniel Blake’

The God’s Own Country star’s latest role is alongside Laia Costa in Only You. The pair discuss the unflinching infertility drama with its director Harry Wootliff

Act your age: teens put the sheen on films about growing up

Like Eighth Grade, Boyhood and the new comedy Good Boys, the most authentic coming-of-age movies feature casts still in the throes of adolescence

Ordinary Time review – quietly profound joys of bringing up baby

A couple navigate the first few weeks of parenthood in Susana Nobre’s affecting, meditative drama

Three to tango: the pregnant dancer duetting with her husband

A screen role as an expectant dancer prepared Bobbi Jene Smith for the real thing. She talks about doing the bump … with a bump

Jessica Biel denies she is an anti-vaxxer after opposing California vaccination law

The actor said she was ‘not against vaccinations’ despite joining prominent anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr in opposition to a bill intended to reduce medical exemptions

Mother review – tender portrait of a charismatic carer

Kristof Bilsen’s documentary focuses on Pomm, who looks after Europeans with Alzheimer’s in Thailand while facing problems of her own