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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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

Fish Tank (15)

  • 10 September 2009

A quirky drama finds unexpected poetry in the Essex badlands

Big River Man (15) and Bustin’ Down the Door (15)

  • 03 September 2009

Two waterborne documentaries leave several questions floating

Broken Embraces (15)

  • 27 August 2009

The once searingly original Spanish auteur stoops to self-parody

Inglourious Basterds (18)

  • 20 August 2009
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Nazi hunters mix with cinema buffs in a return to form for Tarantino

Sin nombre (15)

  • 13 August 2009

This immigrant tale is a flimsy but entertaining gangland thriller

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (15)

  • 06 August 2009

There’s life yet in the French gangster movie genre

Kambakkht Ishq (12A)

  • 30 July 2009

There’s no need for Bollywood to appeal to Middle England – it’s a success already

Antichrist (18)

  • 23 July 2009

Lars von Trier’s Antichrist has provoked shock and disgust – even calls for it to be banned.

United they stood

  • 16 July 2009

A playful yet passionate homage to the Tolpuddle Martyrs

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

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

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

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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