Return to: Home | Columns

Ryan Gilbey

Film

Ryan Gilbey gives his verdict on the key new movie releases

Articles in Film

Results 31 to 40 of 452

Celebrating masochism

  • 30 October 2008
  • 2 comments

The latest James Bond blockbuster is little more than the usual exercise in designer violence, while an astounding portrait of the 1980s IRA hunger strikers takes film into visceral territory

Stepford school friends

  • 23 October 2008

Disney's cheerful cash cow is honest in ways grittier youth films can't match

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (U)
dir: Kenny Ortega

That superior feeling

  • 16 October 2008

The Coen brothers' espionage comedy is an exercise in smugness
Burn After Reading (15)
dir: Joel and Ethan Coen

An offer you can't refuse

  • 09 October 2008

The glamour gets scrubbed off the Mob in this Italian drama
Gomorrah (15) dir: Matteo Garrone

Once in a lifetime

  • 02 October 2008

A child's unearthly performance is at the heart of this brilliant directorial effort
The Fall (15)
dir: Tarsem

Talent that doesn't spoil

  • 25 September 2008

Kristin Scott Thomas is austere, while Ed Harris pulls out all the stops
I've Loved You So Long (12A) dir: Philippe Claudel
Appaloosa (15) dir: Ed Harris

A classy affair

  • 18 September 2008

This tense dissection of a holiday fling unpicks bourgeois codes of etiquette
Unrelated (15)
dir: Joanna Hogg

Dazed and confused

  • 11 September 2008

This stoner comedy is muddled - and not because of the high-grade weed
Pineapple Express (15) dir: David Gordon Green

Outmoded behaviour

  • 04 September 2008

Two period dramas rich in detail, but not so good at characterisation
The Duchess (12A)
dir: Saul Dibb
Angel (15)
dir: François Ozon

Peaks and troughs

  • 28 August 2008

Superb cinematic technique lightens this gruelling tale of hostile mountain life
Times and Winds (15)
dir: Reha Erdem

Cricket's revolution

The Ashes and globalisation

The empire strikes back

Ziauddin Sardar

Move over viagra

Put a little spice in your box

Religion

Does God hate women?

Does God Hate Women?

Art

Medals of dishonour

Pin the blame on them

James Macintyre

Cameron the bully?

A fresh approach?

Canada

The new dope lords

Traffic out of control

Travel

Brussels and surrealism

Nothing is as it seems

Television

Revelations

Revelations: How to Find God

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

Suggest a question

View comments

© New Statesman 1913 – 2009

Tracker