Why Conclave should win the best picture Oscar
Sturdy, classic storytelling and a peerless cast led by Ralph Fiennes’s anxious cardinal make this drama of Vatican intrigue a solid bet
War of words: who is winning the Oscar for best acceptance speech?
This season’s awards circuit has seen Demi Moore and Sean Baker praised for their speeches, but how much does that contribute to the big win?
Picnic at Hanging Rock review – Australian fever dream still dazzling 50 years on
Peter Weir’s 1975 parable of imperial anxiety and sexual hysteria, rereleased for its 50th anniversary, is a classic of Australian new wave cinema
‘Politically, it’s important. It’s important for humanity’: the long-lost civil rights images of Ernest Cole
A new Raoul Peck documentary showcases the recently rediscovered work of the photographer who drew parallels between apartheid South Africa and America’s battle for equality
Schmeichel review – a spirited celebration of Man United’s great Dane
Goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel reflects on his Champions League triumph, on-pitch aggression, double-agent dad and son Kasper in a fan-friendly documentary
Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’
US president made comparison after administration rescinded New York City’s congestion pricing plan
Kontinental ’25 review – scattergun satire on a tour of Romania’s social ills
A bailiff has an identity crisis after a tragedy in Radu Jude’s new film, a scornful polemic on 21st-century Europe set between hope and despair
The Monkey review – slapdash splatter comedy is a grating misfire
Writer-director Osgood Perkins follows up horror hit Longlegs with a tiresome, juvenile adaptation of a Stephen King short story about an evil toy monkey
Mark Zuckerberg’s charity guts DEI after assuring staff it would continue
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ends internal inclusion efforts and ‘social advocacy’ grants and scrubs site of commitment
Beasts unburdened: film course aims to rehabilitate donkeys’ reputation
Portrayals of animal as melancholic and unintelligent are incorrect, say leads of University of Exeter module
My dad died a year ago – and a photo of him on Google Street View brought me up short
A friend sent me the image by surprise and I felt a lot of things very strongly: love, upset, amusement, pleasure and anger, writes Adrian Chiles
Tesco fixes website glitch that affected hundreds of shoppers
Supermarket chain had been forced to apologise after basics including bread and milk marked as unavailable online
Apple launches iPhone 16e and ditches home button
Revamped entry-level iPhone is last to exchange touch ID home button for face ID, modern design – and a price hike
Microsoft unveils chip it says could bring quantum computing within years
Chip is powered by world’s first topoconductor, which can create new state of matter that is not solid, liquid or gas
Meghan’s rebranded herself – and it’s another valiant attempt to flog poshness to the little people
The Duchess of Sussex is in that tricky position of having a large platform and not enough to fill it, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes