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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Curse of the multiplexes
- 13 December 2007
- 2 comments
Like this year, 2008 will bring great films - but you'll be lucky to see them
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A mature take on youth
- 06 December 2007
Coppola's latest effort is overblown, but cinema is better off for his presence
Youth Without Youth (15) dir: Francis Ford Coppola
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How the West was spun
- 29 November 2007
- 1 comment
Brad Pitt stars in a downbeat meditation on fame and criminality
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (15) dir: Andrew Dominik
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Reality bites
- 22 November 2007
Directors today are reluctant to rough it - so we need Herzog more than never
Rescue Dawn (12A) dir: Werner Herzog
The Darjeeling Limited (15) dir: Wes Anderson
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A rather sorry affair
- 15 November 2007
This confused and timid adaptation does no justice to Monica Ali's novel
Brick Lane (15) dir: Sarah Gavron
Jesus Camp (PG) dir: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
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Hollywood, year zero
- 08 November 2007
- 1 comment
Now that the internet brings us uncensored footage of the Iraq War, film-makers must move quickly to stay relevant. By the NS's award-winning film critic
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A walk on the slow side
- 08 November 2007
Sean Penn resists all that Hollywood moralising in a trip to the Alaskan waste
Into the Wild (15) dir: Sean Penn
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An icon for an icon
- 01 November 2007
McDowell's homage to his mentor says just as much about its impish narrator
Never Apologise: a Personal Visit With Lindsay Anderson (15) dir: Mike Kaplan
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The medicine man
- 25 October 2007
- 4 comments
Michael Moore delivers a stinging, if clumsy, attack on US health care
Sicko (12A) dir: Michael Moore
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Guaranteed to give you shivers
- 18 October 2007
- 2 comments
Cronenberg, the master of disgust, delivers a flawed but subversive thriller
Eastern Promises (18) dir: David Cronenberg
