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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Bright Star (PG)

  • 05 November 2009

A deft treatment of John Keats's love life

An Education (12A)/Taking Woodstock (15)

  • 29 October 2009

It’s hard to avoid cliché in such a well-visited era

Fantastic Mr Fox (PG)

  • 22 October 2009

The puppets are gorgeous but the script's a bit familiar, writes Ryan Gilbey

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (12A)

  • 15 October 2009

A strangely underpowered effort from Terry Gilliam

Up (U)

  • 08 October 2009

Pixar achieves lift-off with its latest 3-D outing

The Invention of Lying (12A)

  • 01 October 2009

I can’t lie – this is an absolute stinker of a movie

Born in '68 (15)

  • 24 September 2009

French hippie ideals sour in less than convincing style

Away We Go (15)

  • 17 September 2009

Sam Mendes and a hip literary couple deliver a shockingly smug movie

Seduction line

  • 10 September 2009

“What a tremendous eye he has,” said David Bowie of the film-maker Nagisa Oshima after working with him on Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Ryan Gilbey celebrates the Japanese director’s eroticism and wicked sense of humour

Fish Tank (15)

  • 10 September 2009

A quirky drama finds unexpected poetry in the Essex badlands

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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