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Seeking Mavis Beacon: the search for an elusive Black tech hero

New documentary looks for a woman who was synonymous with typing in the 80s and 90s, with surprising results

Film suggests Nazis’ lead propagandist had role in 1939 massacre

Letter in Leni Riefenstahl archive appears to claim her set instructions led to deaths of Polish Jews, says director

Touch review – unashamedly emotional love story travels back to the 1960s

Baltasar Kormákur’s beautifully shot romance sees Kristófer try to track down Miko, a lifetime after their youthful love affair is unexpectedly cut short

Milk & Serial: the vicious, viral $800-budget horror that’s free to watch

Found-footage horror about YouTube pranksters turns into an online phenomenon, giving its star and creator a Hollywood inroad

And Mrs review – love never dies for Aisling Bea in barmy Brit romcom

This Richard Curtis-like comedy sees Bea on fine form as she tries to marry her her dead boyfriend, supported by a knockout cast including Harriet Walter and Susan Wokoma

Silent Sherlock Holmes film to be screened for first time since 1922 release

The Golden Pince-Nez features Eille Norwood as the detective and has been restored by the BFI national archive

Blink Twice and the problem with #MeToo thrillers

Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut joins a microgenre of films, from Promising Young Woman to Don’t Worry Darling, that try – and mostly fail – to capture a difficult moment

What if loveless sex made us sick? The very strange, very French world of Mauvais Sang

Also known as The Night is Young, Leos Carax’s 1986 film is both bold and sincere, starring a young Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Denis Lavant

‘January 6 was just the warm-up’: the film that tracks three Maga extremists storming the Capitol

Michael Premo spent months getting to know, and filming, three Maga insurrectionists who took part in the riots. Why does the documentary-maker now think America is tottering on the brink of civil war?

Francis Ford Coppola confirms he kissed extras on Megalopolis set

While saying the Guardian’s report that he tried to kiss female extras was ‘totally untrue’, the director told Rolling Stone ‘they were young women I knew’

Point of Change review – how the arrival ‘surf explorers’ altered a tiny Indian Ocean paradise

Rebecca Coley’s documentary shows how Australian surfers found peace and perfect tubular waves on Nias – and led inevitably to boatloads of tourists and pollution

Path clears for Paramount merger with Skydance after Bronfman drops bid

Ex-Warner Music chief had formed consortium to gazump planned deal but some would-be investors withdrew

Broken Bird review – creepily brilliant psych-horror of control-freak funeral-parlour attendant

Rebecca Calder is superbly supple as the damaged protagonist in a richly imagined horror story

Mandoob (Night Courier) review – darkly amusing gig-economy satire on the mean streets of Riyadh

Director Ali Kalthami’s bleak and funny portrait of toxic masculinity was a massive hit in its home country of Saudi Arabia

Mary Poppins at 60: a dazzling Disney masterpiece that hasn’t lost its shine

Julie Andrews makes for a pitch-perfect lead in a studio-saving hit that offers a spoonful of sugar with a side of salt

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