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
An Education (12A)/Taking Woodstock (15)
- 29 October 2009
It’s hard to avoid cliché in such a well-visited era
Film
Fantastic Mr Fox (PG)
- 22 October 2009
The puppets are gorgeous but the script's a bit familiar, writes Ryan Gilbey
Film
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (12A)
- 15 October 2009
A strangely underpowered effort from Terry Gilliam
Film
The Invention of Lying (12A)
- 01 October 2009
I can’t lie – this is an absolute stinker of a movie
Film
Away We Go (15)
- 17 September 2009
Sam Mendes and a hip literary couple deliver a shockingly smug movie
Culture
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
Culture
Fish Tank (15)
- 10 September 2009
A quirky drama finds unexpected poetry in the Essex badlands
