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[Édito] Un si mauvais refrain

Notre chroniqueur Sébastien Le Fol donne son point de vue sur la présence d’Israël au prochain concours de l’Eurovision.

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On a vu 4 épisodes de Loups-Garous saison 2 : la série de Canal+ est-elle toujours aussi addictive ?

Un an après sa première partie devenue iconique, la série Loups Garous reprend du service pour une saison 2 sur Canal+. Au menu, de nouveaux villageois et des grands méchants à démasquer. Mais la magie opère-t-elle toujours ? Voici notre critique, sans spoilers, des quatre premiers épisodes, que nous avons pu voir en avant-première.

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The Guide #220: The best things we watched, read and listened to this year – that weren’t from 2025

In this week’s newsletter: We revisit forgotten noirs, rediscovered albums and retro games that stole the year

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We’ve just inched into December, which of course means Christmas list season. Already, five days in, plenty of publications have shared their cultural best-ofs for 2025 – you can read the Guardian’s best books and songs of the year right now, with our countdowns in TV, film and music coming very soon.

Meanwhile, many of you will have been bombarded on social media by screengrabs of your colleagues/friends/enemies’ Spotify Wrapped playlists (though Mood Machine author Liz Pelly has written pretty convincingly about why you shouldn’t share yours). This year’s Wrapped includes a “listening age” feature, which uses the release dates of the music you streamed to determine how horribly out-of-date your tastes are – revealing to some users that they are, in fact, centenarians.

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© Composite: Alamy, Getty, Nintendo

© Composite: Alamy, Getty, Nintendo

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Scarlett Johansson joining the Batverse is good news for the franchise – but who will she play?

The actor who marries box office ratings with Wes Anderson cool should revive the Batman series, but trying to guess who she might play is a thankless task

For years the follow-up to Matt Reeves’ slick but glacially paced 2022 comic-book epic The Batman has existed in a dimly lit rumour void. We know it will eventually get here (supposedly in October 2027), but nobody knows quite what it will look like. Entire geological epochs may come and go before the film-maker finally decides which doyen of Batman’s infamous rogues’ gallery he wants to unleash next. The foundations of Gotham itself may shift before Reeves works out which brooding, rain-soaked grunge ditty will form the basis of the new soundtrack.

And then – out of nowhere – comes this week’s news that Scarlett Johansson is in final talks to join the cast of the sequel. We have no idea who she’s likely to play but it matters not: this feels consequential, a bat-signal flickering to life over a city long abandoned. Johansson is more than just an A-lister; she’s one of the few actors who still puts bums on seats and appears in Wes Anderson movies. She retains a veneer of golden-era Hollywood cool that feels exactly right.

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© Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images

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The end of big-screen cinema? Netflix hope to achieve by buying Warner Bros | Andrew Pulver

IP success stories such as Barbie and the DC Universe? That elusive best picture Oscar? Or perhaps the main goal is a good old-fashioned blockbuster

Corporate Hollywood has undergone huge upheavals in recent years – as consequential, perhaps, as the 1970s and 80s, when the studio marques that had made their names in the movies’ golden age were being bought up by international conglomerates. The acquisition of Warner Bros – legendary for crime pictures in the 40s and 50s, and Batman movies in the 90s and 00s – by a streaming service feels particularly significant, coming as it does on the back of the merger of Paramount with Skydance Media earlier this year and, in 2019, Disney’s purchase of fellow studio 21st Century Fox.

What is most evident in all these deals is how streaming services have changed the game. Disney’s buying spree – which had previously included Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar – in retrospect looks essentially like preparatory positioning to increase the marketability of their Disney+ player. It is significant that the new Paramount regime’s first move was to prise Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer away from Netflix. And Netflix, of course, have made their billions by upending the traditional pitch-session-to-cinema pipeline that had sustained the film industry for decades. They have signed up legions of the classiest directors, hogged nearly all the audience-friendly documentaries and premiered one water-cooler series after another.

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© Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

© Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

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Voici les 10 meilleurs films de Noël à voir sur Netflix

Alors que les fêtes de fin d'année approchent doucement, voici les 10 meilleurs films de Noël à dévorer sur Netflix, entre comédies romantiques dégoulinantes de guimauve à la manière de Vive le vol d'hiver et dessins animés doux comme un nuage comme Klaus.

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On a vu 4 épisodes de Loups-Garous saison 2 : la série de Canal+ est-elle toujours aussi addictive ?

Un an après sa première partie devenue iconique, la série Loups Garous reprend du service pour une saison 2 sur Canal+. Au menu, de nouveaux villageois et des grands méchants à démasquer. Mais la magie opère-t-elle toujours ? Voici notre critique, sans spoilers, des quatre premiers épisodes, que nous avons pu voir en avant-première.

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Austria to go ahead with Eurovision despite financial impact of boycott

Host broadcaster says show will not suffer after four countries withdraw from 2026 contest over Israel and Gaza

Austria has said it will continue with plans to host next year’s Eurovision, in spite of its budget being hit by four countries boycotting the song contest over Israel’s participation and the war in Gaza.

At a meeting in Geneva, the national broadcasters that make up the European Broadcasting Union gave the all clear for Israel to take part in next year’s event in Vienna, the contest’s 70th anniversary edition.

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© Photograph: Leonhard Föger/Reuters

© Photograph: Leonhard Föger/Reuters

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Stephen Colbert on Pete Hegseth’s Venezuela scandal: ‘Frantically pointing the finger’

Late-night hosts discussed Hegseth’s deflection of international outrage on to his admirals, Trump’s changed auto standards and new photos of Epstein’s island

Late-night hosts talked Donald Trump’s renaming of the Institute of Peace, Pete Hegseth’s ongoing Venezuela scandal and a new batch of photos from Epstein Island.

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© Photograph: Youtube

© Photograph: Youtube

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Russell Crowe’s 20 best roles – sorted!

With Nuremberg out in Australian cinemas, we cast an eye over Rusty’s eclectic, varied and downright impressive oeuvre. Are you not entertained?

Russell Crowe’s hair-raising performance as Hermann Göring in Nuremberg is the latest example of the veteran actor’s high-risk, high-reward approach. He has a knack for taking on difficult, baggage-laden roles that could have gone spectacularly badly – only to deliver the goods and make you want to stand up and yell “bravo!” You’ll struggle to find many other actors working today with an oeuvre as eclectic, varied and downright impressive as the Wellington-born star’s. Here are his 20 greatest performances.

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© Photograph: 20 Century Fox/Sportsphoto/Allstar

© Photograph: 20 Century Fox/Sportsphoto/Allstar

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Playwright Jeremy O Harris arrested in Japan for alleged drug smuggling

The writer of the Tony award-nominated Slave Play remains in custody after authorities say they found MDMA in his bag

American actor and playwright Jeremy O Harris, known for the Tony-nominated Slave Play, was arrested last month at an airport in Japan on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country, local authorities said late on Thursday.

Harris, 36, was stopped on 16 November at Naha airport on Okinawa island after a customs officer discovered 0.78 grams of crystal containing the synthetic drug MDMA in his tote bag, an Okinawa regional customs spokesperson said.

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© Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue

© Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue

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