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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Film
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
Film
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
Film
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
Film
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
Film
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
Film
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
Film
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
Film
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
Film
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
Film
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


