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Ryan Gilbey

Ryan Gilbey

Ryan Gilbey is the author of It Don't Worry Me (Faber), about 1970s US cinema, and a study of Groundhog Day in the 'Modern Classics' series (BFI Publishing). He was named reviewer of the year in the 2007 Press Gazette awards and he is the New Statesman's film critic..

Articles by Ryan Gilbey

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And now for something completely different

  • 12 March 2007

Experimental cinema meets the mainstream, with mixed results
The Good German (15)
dir: Steven Soderbergh
Inland Empire (15)
dir: David Lynch

Food for thought

  • 05 March 2007

Richard Linklater defined the slacker generation of the 1990s, but his latest film is a tough exposé of the junk-food industry. He tells Ryan Gilbey why he got political

More sinful than saintly

  • 05 March 2007

Stylish visuals aren't enough to save this grimy memoir
A Guide to Recognising Your Saints (15)
dir: Dito Montiel

Sit down, and I'll tell you a story

  • 26 February 2007

A spectacularly intense fantasy is the pick of the Berlin festival crop
57th Berlin International Film Festival, 8-18 February 2007

The devil is in the detail

  • 19 February 2007

Clint Eastwood's powerful drama intimately captures the chaos of conflict
Letters from Iwo Jima (15) dir: Clint Eastwood

Love, loss and all that jazz

  • 12 February 2007

Turkish director presents a wise and moving portrait of a fading romance
Climates (15) dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
My Name is Albert Ayler (15) dir: Kasper Collin

From literature to pulp fiction

  • 05 February 2007

This could have been a taut drama; instead, it's a squalid red-top exposé
Notes on a Scandal (15) dir: Richard Eyre

It's love, but not as we know it

  • 29 January 2007

Spiritual, sincere and downright silly, this romantic story is weirdly intoxicating
The Fountain (12A)
dir: Darren Aronofsky

Of love and war

  • 22 January 2007

Two very different films highlight the human cost of armed conflict
Iraq in Fragments (12A)
dir: James Longley
Black Book (15)
dir: Paul Verhoeven

A string of mangled opportunities

  • 15 January 2007

Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin gives a fine performance against all the odds
The Last King of Scotland (15)
dir: Kevin Macdonald

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