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LifeHack review – old-school heist movie updated for the meme age

Ronan Corrigan levels up a thoroughly beta-tested narrative in this efficiently executed hacker-turned-thief split-screen thriller

‘Oh my God, did my dad and I fight’: Olivia Colman on triggers, trans rights and sexual regret

John Lithgow plays the gay and often nude septuagenarian father of Colman’s character in Jimpa, a new story of intergenerational queerness. She explains why her own dad would have ‘sat and cried all the way through it’

‘A passion, but also a gamble’: why India’s gen Z are cashing in on the trend for secondhand fashion

Faced with rising costs and a lack of jobs, many young Indians are turning an online side hustle into a successful income – but the informal work isn’t always plain sailing

A Woman’s Life review – a breezy comedy of midlife crisis and same-sex affair

Cannes film festival: Léa Drucker gives a bravura performance as a brilliant surgeon whose already chaotic life is further complicated by a same-sex affair with a journalist

Butterfly Jam review – Barry Keoghan can’t save this New Jersey misstep

Cannes film festival: The Irish actor plays a disillusioned Circassian chef with a knack with animals in Kantemir Balagov’s clunky third film

One in seven in UK prefer consulting AI chatbots to seeing doctor, study finds

Exclusive: Doctors say ‘highly concerning’ poll highlights risk to patients of turning to AI for medical advice

Life Could Be a Dream review – a powerful, polished Australian film about domestic abuse

Director Jasmin Tarasin weaves richly layered moments between mother and son – and darker flashbacks to what they left behind

The Devil Wears Prada sold me the journalism fantasy. The sequel captures the unglamorous reality

I don’t know a single journalist my age who hasn’t ricocheted around the rapidly shrinking media industry, through multiple buyouts, redundancies and pivots to video

Chinese court awards compensation to sacked worker replaced by AI

Case attracts widespread attention as example of China balancing enthusiastic adoption of AI with job security

Nagi Notes review – clear, calm light shed on criss-crossed family passions

Cannes film festival: Set in a beautifully filmed provincial Japanese town, what could have been a soapy drama is told with poetic restraint and subtlety by Kôji Fukada

How Michael Jackson’s tarnished image is being cannily rehabilitated

A new biopic has contributed to an atmosphere that casts the late singer as a profoundly damaged figure who is more victim than victimiser

US-based internet suicide forum implicated in 160 UK deaths fined £950,000

Ofcom attempts to block UK access to site cited in multiple coroners’ reports as it levies fine under Online Safety Act

‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area

‘It screws with your mind’: Jennie Garth on 90210 fame in her 20s – and speeding up in her 50s

She shot to fame as a teenager, but always felt like an outsider in Hollywood. Now she has started a podcast and written a memoir for women who find themselves at a standstill

Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says

Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash

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  • Mahershala Ali on Marvel’s collapsed Blade reboot: ‘If they wanted to do it, we would’ve done it’
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  • The Birthday Trip review – excellent Australian black comedy piles pressure on to privilege
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  • Black people in the US: have you used AI for health-related questions?
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  • ‘They played noughts and crosses on the PM’s huge forehead!’ An Indian standup picks his favourite gen Z protest memes

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