The Fence review – Claire Denis stumbles with a grim and grating misfire

The French director has made of one her least effective movies with this dull and clunkily adapted version of 1979 play with a miscast Matt Dillon at its centre

Larry Ellison briefly overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person

Oracle co-founder’s shares rose by 40% in early trading, briefly valuing his fortune at $393bn, just ahead of Musk’s $384bn

US drugmaker Merck scraps £1bn London research centre and cuts 125 science jobs

New blow to UK’s key life science sector as industry body says country is losing ground on investment and research

Snapchat allows drug dealers to operate openly on platform, finds Danish study

Social media platform accused of failing to filter out obvious key usernames such as ‘coke’, ‘weed’ and ‘molly’

Actors and directors pledge not to work with Israeli film groups ‘implicated in genocide’

Exclusive: Thousands of film workers join new boycott initiative criticized by Israeli producers’ group as ‘misguided’

Israeli film industry calls boycott pledge ‘deeply troubling’

Screenwriters’ guild of Israel says campaign that has now won backing from 1,800 actors, directors and other professionals will only ‘deepen the darkness’

Skip Apple’s new iPhone – five tips to make your old phone feel new again

A few inexpensive upgrades can totally reinvigorate your old iPhone, and you can get even get the iPhone 17’s best feature completely free

Went Up the Hill review – icy ghost story feels a little empty

Dacre Montgomery and Vicky Krieps star as a pair of strangers tethered by a late mutual relative who begins to inhabit their bodies. It’s deadly serious – too serious

The Long Walk review – Stephen King death game dystopia is the grimmest mainstream movie for some time

Fifty young men compete in an endurance event, during which they are shot in the head at point-blank range if they slow down, in this horrific buddy story adaptation

‘Nobody can occupy your imagination’: From Ground Zero’s producer on documenting his native Palestine

Rashid Masharawi, who produced the anthology of 22 short films that was Palestine’s official entry to the Academy Awards, has remarkable optimism about the future of Gaza

‘It was a fair shot’: Anna Wintour belatedly gives her verdict on The Devil Wears Prada

The formidable Vogue boss said Meryl Streep’s subtle performance as a fictional fashion editor ‘had a lot of wit’ – adding that she attended the premiere wearing Prada without knowing its theme

‘His team loved and revered him’: Harry Potter director David Yates pays tribute to production designer Stuart Craig

Craig was an artist of literally towering achievements, in films from The English Patient to Harry Potter, whose kindness won the loyalty of the huge teams he led

James McAvoy reportedly assaulted in Toronto bar

Actor promoting his directorial debut California Schemin’ at the city’s film festival is reported to have been punched by another drinker

Holding Liat review – powerful study of a family torn apart by Hamas’ 7 October attacks

Brandon Kramer’s documentary complicates any simple view of the Israel-Gaza war in its portrait of one family’s agonising divisions

Labour comms director helped write manifesto while still working at TikTok

Exclusive: James Lyons rewrote 2024 election pledges ‘over evenings and weekends’ before his exit from social media company