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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The plot thickens
- 13 September 2007
Marwan Hamed skilfully renders these interweaving stories of Cairo life The Yacoubian Building (15) dir: Marwan Hamed
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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
