Star Wars actor John Boyega on the day his 10-year-old school friend Damilola Taylor was killed: ‘It kept me up at night because I was just with the guy’

The star was just eight when his friend was stabbed. Decades on, he’s ready to talk about that day – how it shaped him, and how, as he becomes a father himself, it will shape him as a dad

A Statement review – outstanding climate change dramedy about a 1980 meeting

Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti and Tatiana Maslany lead an excellent ensemble in this dramatization of a failed 1980 conference on climate change

California’s new laws target workers’ biggest fear of AI taking their jobs

The state, which is home to many AI companies, is one of the first to roll out workplace regulations targeting the technology

‘I was making no money’: Travel agent side hustle promoted by influencers criticised over fees

Would-be marketers enticed by online talk of entering a world of travel and easy cash find that the reality is rather different

BT accused of ‘bullying’ customers by pausing broadband in digital landline push

Companies race to switch households to ‘voice over internet protocol’ services by the end of January

Deepfake review – ingenious interview with a PM who dances around every issue

An interrogater tries to get to the bottom of a surreal scandal while green screen actors meddle with the story in Jess and Morgs’ inventive production

OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day

Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authorisation

From Digger to The Strokes: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Tom Cruise transforms in Alejandro Iñárritu’s heavyweight satirical comedy, while the NYC indie rockers are in the UK for an arena tour

From Celebrity Traitors to Extra Geography: the week in rave reviews

Claudia Winkleman joins a castle full of celebs as the duplicitous favourite returns, while Molly Manners’ extremely funny boarding school comedy tackles desire and adulthood. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026

Movie about Nazi-collaborating administration strikes chord during what director calls ‘time of great uncertainty’

Behemoth! review – Pedro Pascal classical music drama hits all the wrong notes

The actor stumbles through Tony Gilroy’s forgettable film marred by stylistic gimmicks

Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s sumptuous recording is an immediate classic

The Geese frontman mesmerizes in a concert film that is both swoony and austere

Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots

A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballots

‘Just like my big brothers’: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technology

Patrick McCabe’s herculean feat shows limits and possibilities of special educational needs and disabilities system

‘I thought Brassed Off might be popular within a 10 mile radius of Barnsley’: the director of Andy Burnham’s favourite film on its 30-year anniversary

Ahead of a live performance in the Royal Albert Hall, the writer Mark Herman explains why he’s not surprised it’s one of the new Prime Minister’s favourites and a why film like this wouldn’t get made now