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The Guardian view on Winnie-the-Pooh: now we are 100

Editorial: He may have been eclipsed by the more progressive Paddington of late, but AA Milne’s creation is not just a Silly Old Bear

Look Back review – Kore-eda’s ode to friendship, manga and artistic success

Two obsessive artists team up to achieve their dreams, but then their aspirations diverge

‘Tough to watch, impossible to ignore’: reviewers on NAZA documentary

Film interviewing military insiders about mass killing of civilians in Gaza wins widespread praise around the world

The ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax

Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and education

I’ve debated with Israel’s most fervent defenders – NAZA debunks their talking points

The film’s testimonies from Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers expose years of baseless propaganda. Don’t take my word – take theirs

How to dress a tech oligarch: The Social Reckoning’s costume designer on Zuckerberg’s style evolution

Susan Lyall worked with actor Jeremy Strong to research the Meta CEO’s favorite Nikes and luxury sweaters

An open book: how to make a great film adaptation, from The Shining to Trainspotting

Not every great novel makes a great movie, and sometimes the opposite is true. But regardless of the source text, or how beloved characters are treated, there is more than one way to write a successful adaptation

‘Opening the lid of a horrible secret’: Jamaicans confront enslavement with taboo-busting stories on screen

As violent spirits are unleashed in Sky’s Possession, observers see confident creatives reclaiming the island’s narratives in a form of ‘cultural reparation’

The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable review – Netflix doc on ‘secret album’ is strictly for super fans

The lore of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, once bought by Martin Shkreli, is explored in a rambling film produced by RZA

We are teaching children maths they will never use. Isn’t it better to help them speak fluently?

The education secretary is right to focus on what students need most: the ability to express themselves. As for maths, grab a calculator, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Tenzing to Goodfellas: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Tom Hiddleston, Willem Dafoe and Genden Phuntsok scale Everest in the ultimate adventure biopic, plus Martin Scorsese mafia masterpiece

Calling the shots: what NAZA says about perpetrator cinema

The documentary detailing Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza is the latest film to give a voice to those who carry out atrocities – confronting viewers with some of the most difficult questions of all

Dogmatic Nordic liberals v eastern family values: culture-clash drama Fjord touches nerves in Norway and Romania

Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes winner echoes the news story of a Romanian couple whose children were taken by the Norwegian government. As it heads to London film festival, two writers explain how the film exposes real hypocrisies

Victoria Beckham, ‘duck face’ and onesies: nine things Zoolander predicted about fashion

It’s been 25 years since the release of Ben Stiller film that skewers an industry that famously takes itself very seriously. It might have been comedy gold, but it also predicted our fashion-saturated 21st century

The Face of Horror review – a future cult classic delights with playful spin on Hammer horror

Anna Biller’s intricate tribute to the British 1960s genre plays melodrama for laughs and pulls it off wonderfully in a medieval tale based on a Japanese ghost story

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