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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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

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

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

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

Move over, Jamie Oliver

  • 11 October 2007

Pixar's latest offering is mouth-watering - if you can stomach a meal served by rats Ratatouille (U)dirs: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava Princess (18) dir: Anders Morgenthaler

Unknown pleasures

  • 04 October 2007

There's a surprising amount of humour in this take on the Joy Division story Control (15) dir: Anton Corbijn

Things that make you go hmmm

  • 27 September 2007

Don't try to make sense of Matthew Barney's films - just enjoy the weirdness Drawing Restraint 9 (no cert) dir: Matthew Barney

A reservoir dog's dinner

  • 20 September 2007

This 1970s B-movie homage is Tarantino on autopilot - two hours of utter trash Death Proof (18) dir: Quentin Tarantino

The plot thickens

  • 13 September 2007

Marwan Hamed skilfully renders these interweaving stories of Cairo life The Yacoubian Building (15) dir: Marwan Hamed

Style over substance

  • 06 September 2007
  • 1 comment

Ian McEwan's novel fails to make the transition to film, despite a star cast Atonement (15) dir: Joe Wright

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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