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Mother Mary review – Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel are lost in ludicrous pop star drama

Music from Charli xcx can’t save David Lowery’s dour chamber piece, despite some flashes of dazzling style

‘Cheers, Timmy!’ Royal Ballet and Opera head thanks Chalamet for ‘fantastic’ boost to sales

Actor Timothée Chalamet was credited by RBO’s chief exec with inadvertently boosting ticket sales through his high-profile critique of the art forms

Miracle Mile: boy meets girl, romcom meets nuclear war

This 80s thriller straddles both a charming love affair and the threat of impending apocalypse. Somehow, it all works

Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’

Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections

Nissan turnaround plan pins hopes on ‘AI-defined vehicles’

Japanese carmaker will add self-driving abilities to 90% of cars in future and cut a fifth of its models

AI companies make powerful tech – but they’re also savvy marketers

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI is said to be frighteningly capable, but we shouldn’t get carried away by the hype

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think

Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Endless Cookie review – Cheech and Chong meet Tristram Shandy in trippy tales of First Nations life

An animator records the shaggy dog stories of his Indigenous brother in a loopy, hallucinatory animation

Is the new Super Mario Galaxy movie really that bad?

A shallow plot and advert-adjacent cameos justify the critics’ condemnation of Nintendo’s latest film. But there’s sincere affection for the universe here, too

‘Such a water-cooler show!’ Jane Krakowski on Ally McBeal – and life as the world’s biggest scene-stealer

The 1990s series set her career alight; then came 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and countless theatre triumphs. She discusses Tina Fey, Stephen Sondheim and why it would take a broken leg to keep her off stage

Kinaesthesia review – treasure trove of early cinema visions and the dream life they contain

Gerald Fox’s documentary on early film-makers’ fascination with dreams and human consciousness is a fascinating, if rather scholarly endeavour

Gary Neville’s media group buys football YouTuber Mark Goldbridge’s channels

Exclusive: Neville has criticised “those bloody YouTubers” – but The Overlap has now acquired channels with 3.7m subscribers for seven-figure sum

Searching for Satyrus review – on the hunt for an elusive butterfly and the lepidopterist who named them

Rena Effendi attempts to find the species named after her wayward, womanising father – and a connection to the man she never knew – in this moving documentary

British teenager who killed three girls likely viewed footage of Sydney’s Wakeley stabbing before carrying out attack, report finds

Report finds Axel Rudakubana bypassed X age controls and likely viewed footage of Mar Mari Emmanuel stabbing before carrying out UK attack

Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack

The group named ShinyHunters have accessed a third party server and have given the company a deadline of 14 April to enter ransom negotiations

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