The Ice Tower review – Marion Cotillard focus of obsession and idolisation in death-wish fairytale
Cotillard plays a movie actor starring in a production of The Snow Queen in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s unwholesome story of yearning
Testimony review – a devastating exposé of the Irish church’s brutal Magdalene laundries
A searing documentary on the laundries sees a determined young human rights lawyer join survivors and campaigners in a fight for truth and accountability
Champagne Problems review – Netflix’s latest Christmas romcom lacks fizz
The streamer continues its annual onslaught of forgettable festive films with a mostly charmless romance set in France
Sisu: Road to Revenge review – Finnish hero takes on a Red Army butcher in terrific sequel
Punchy, old-school stunt work, inventive baddie-splattering and a simple plot as our grizzled Finish prospector finds a new foe in his Soviet-occupied homeland
Use smart tech, turn heat down, service boilers: how to save money on energy bills
From turning down thermostats to make savings to installing reflectors to push warmth back into your home
TikTok to give users power to reduce amount of AI content on their feeds
Platform reveals it hosts more than 1bn AI videos as it starts testing over next few weeks before global rollout
Becoming an AI detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could quit
My social media feed is now a hellish stream of puerile AI slop. Am I stubborn to want to hang on to reality?
Meta wins major US antitrust case and won’t have to break off WhatsApp or Instagram
Challenge to Meta could have forced it to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp, but judge ruled company did not hold social networking monopoly
Do you really need to buy a new TV? Seven simple ways to upgrade your setup (some are even free)
Don’t splash out just yet! From a system update to better room lighting, a little fine-tuning could save you hundreds
The Guardian view on crypto’s latest crash: it reveals who pays the price for a failing economy
Editorial: The bitcoin collapse lifts the lid on a society without opportunity, where risk is privatised and rightwingers sell illusions of freedom while ordinary punters bear losses
Klarna says AI drive has helped halve staff numbers and boost pay
Buy now, pay later firm says pay has risen by 60% with staff numbers mostly cut by attrition and tech investment
Wicked: For Good review – Cynthia Erivo sweeps the field in explosive second chunk of Oz prequel
Bringing her black-belt screen presence to the role of Elphaba, Erivo leads a fine cast in a zingily scored conclusion to the hit origin story
Stellan Skarsgård starrer Sentimental Value leads nominations for European film awards
Director Joachim Trier’s family drama has five nominations, including best actor for Skarsgård, while Oliver Laxe’s techno thriller Sirāt has four nominations
What is Cloudflare – and why did its outage take down so many websites?
Bet365, League of Legends, Sage, YouTube and Google were among those taken offline as provider tried to fix problem
Cloudflare says ‘incident now resolved’ after outage causes error messages across the internet – as it happened
Company says it believes the outage has now been resolved and a fix has been implemented