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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Thanks for the memories
- 20 November 2008
An unsettling and inspired exploration of how the trauma of war affects the mind
Waltz With Bashir (18)
dir: Ari Folman
Film
Killing to be cool
- 13 November 2008
Black-leather glam over-romanticises the real story of this 1970s guerrilla gang
The Baader Meinhof Complex (18) dir: Uli Edel
Film
Misunderestimating George
- 06 November 2008
- 1 comment
Is the horror of the Bush years beyond satire? Stone's bland effort suggests so
W (15)
dir: Oliver Stone
Film
Celebrating masochism
- 30 October 2008
- 2 comments
The latest James Bond blockbuster is little more than the usual exercise in designer violence, while an astounding portrait of the 1980s IRA hunger strikers takes film into visceral territory
Film
Stepford school friends
- 23 October 2008
Disney's cheerful cash cow is honest in ways grittier youth films can't match
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (U)
dir: Kenny Ortega
Film
That superior feeling
- 16 October 2008
The Coen brothers' espionage comedy is an exercise in smugness
Burn After Reading (15)
dir: Joel and Ethan Coen
Film
An offer you can't refuse
- 09 October 2008
The glamour gets scrubbed off the Mob in this Italian drama
Gomorrah (15) dir: Matteo Garrone
Film
Once in a lifetime
- 02 October 2008
A child's unearthly performance is at the heart of this brilliant directorial effort
The Fall (15)
dir: Tarsem
Film
Talent that doesn't spoil
- 25 September 2008
Kristin Scott Thomas is austere, while Ed Harris pulls out all the stops
I've Loved You So Long (12A) dir: Philippe Claudel
Appaloosa (15) dir: Ed Harris
Film
A classy affair
- 18 September 2008
This tense dissection of a holiday fling unpicks bourgeois codes of etiquette
Unrelated (15)
dir: Joanna Hogg
