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The reviews are in! Is You Can See Everything the greatest film ever?

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s headspinning documentary about Elizabeth Holmes is an unprecedented critical success – even with a three-hour runtime

Calls to strengthen workplace privacy in Australia as employers turn to AI to track staff

Monitoring tools common in a range of workplaces, including factories, office jobs, delivery work and in retail – often without employees being informed

The Canary news website announces closure after ‘vicious campaign against us’

Leftwing outlet said it had faced ‘multiple attacks’ and ‘malicious lies’ which made its situation unsustainable

AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’

The $48bn giveaway comes amid concerns about the tech and as the company prepares for a stock market listing

The Night Is Fading Away review – hypnotic homage to cinema as a force for public good

A local cinema becomes a refuge after Javier Milei’s election ushers in an era of far-right conservatism in Argentina

‘We tried to levitate the Pentagon’: the almost unbelievable life of Ed Sanders, trickster god of the US counterculture

He gave Jimi Hendrix his gear, freaked out Frank Sinatra, inspired Norman Mailer – and tried to topple the American war machine. As a documentary about his band the Fugs comes out, the 87-year-old gives a rare interview

Pedigree chums: why the movies are killing off fewer dogs

Are film-makers wary of alienating increasingly sensitive audiences by offing a pooch? Or is humanity now just too soft to deal with the trauma of a Turner & Hooch?

‘They were brilliant people’: fascinating film reveals a Harlem Renaissance reunion

In the dazzling archival documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem, a 1972 cocktail party brings together various creative luminaries as they discuss and debate

Vampire Carnival review – it’s Twilight at the fairground as abs run wild in pointy-toothed tug of war

A mortal twentysomething is caught in a love triangle with two hunky vampire carnival workers in a film with good looks but not much to chew on

US teens can access ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report finds

Exclusive: Using test accounts, Tech Transparency Project downloaded 135 apps with features to generate nonconsensual nude imagery

A Zack Snyder DC Universe might not have been such a bad thing, after all

After Joss Whedon’s arrival, back in the news with comments from Ben Affleck, the franchise lost a sense of earnest passion that could have sustained a weary DCEU

‘A beautiful dismantling of cynicism’: why Galaxy Quest is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers detailing their most easily rewatched comfort films is an appreciation of a smart, funny and tender ode to fan culture

Ghost in the Cell review – Indonesian prison-slasher-satire contains the most unhinged punch-up in decades

Director Joko Anwar uses horror for social commentary as he skewers corruption and hypocrisy with likable silliness and raucous energy

After the Snowmelt review – a fatal disaster in a snowstorm leads to devastating act of remembrance

Yi-Shan Lo returns to Nepal to follow the route of her best friend’s ill-fated hike in a harrowing but cathartic documentary

The one change that worked: I deleted Instagram – and embraced the joys of a truly private life

I’d become obsessed with appealing to my invisible audience. But since I ditched the app a year ago, my quieter moments have taken on brilliant new meaning

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