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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Gilbey on Film: what Leslie Nielsen told me

  • 30 November 2010
  • 4 comments

The late actor revealed he would have made one last "Naked Gun" movie.

The American

  • 25 November 2010
  • 4 comments

This is proof that cinematic greatness is earned, not bought.

Gilbey on Film: love inanimate

  • 24 November 2010

Fine animation doesn't always produce cinematic novelty.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

  • 18 November 2010
  • 5 comments

Dreams blur with real life in this sensual cinematic vision.

Gilbey on Film: true horror

  • 16 November 2010
  • 6 comments

For frights, nothing beats a public information film from the Seventies.

We Are What We Are, Dream Home, Let Me In

  • 11 November 2010
  • 5 comments

Not all horror films have forgotten how to frighten.

Gilbey on Film: I'm a Girl refusenik

  • 10 November 2010
  • 5 comments

Why I won't be watching - or reading - any of the Stieg Larsson trilogy.

Another Year (12A)

  • 04 November 2010
  • 1 comment

Ryan Gilbey finds Mike Leigh pursuing fashionably horticultural themes.

Gilbey on Film: Cinema as cultural Trojan horse

  • 02 November 2010
  • 4 comments

The third Jackass movie is Abu Ghraib reflected in a funhouse mirror.

The Kids Are All Right (15)

  • 28 October 2010

Annette Bening's return to the screen warrants a public holiday.

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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