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Review: Love and Friendship – both modernised and faithful

Stillman’s adaptation successfully captures Austin and puts others to shame, writes Zach Leather

I, Daniel Blake: a working class triumph

Jem Bartholomew hopes Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or win can revolutionise our national welfare debate

Review: Everybody Wants Some!! – antiquated male stereotypes

Zach Leather considers Linklater’s latest nostalgia-soaked '80s escapade, finding it dominated by one-dimensional men in fear of emasculations

Review: OBA Film Festival showcase

James Riding casts an eye over the most ambitious films in Oxford student filmmaking at the OBA’s annual screening

Review: Florence Foster Jenkins

Thomas Player was left feeling warm inside, despite the ear splitting singing

The Age of Photoshop?

Daniel Curtis laments the decline of the quality film poster, but sees many reasons to be optimistic for the future

Linking Linklater’s Latest

Jake Kennedy identifies time as the common thread in Richard Linklater’s work

Representing The Impossible

Cinema will never be able to represent the horrors of the Holocaust, but Son of Saul offers a sensitive try, writes Jem Bartholomew

Review: the OBA Easter Projects

Louise Howland dissects Sunday’s OBA student film screening, praising their indie feminist zeal

Review: Eye In The Sky – a warning about the costs of war

Apart from the climax, Rickman’s final film doesn’t have much ‘thrill’ for a thriller, writes Alistair Badenoch

The Making of Bench: contribution and collaboration

The cast and crew of Bench reflect on the collaborative process of film-making, women behind and in-front of the camera, and cinema's power over how we perceive mental health disorders

Review: Hush – a cat and mouse fight to the death

Hush negotiates the established conventions of the home-invasion horror concerning female victimhood, writes Louise Howland

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