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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Culture
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
Culture
Fish Tank (15)
- 10 September 2009
A quirky drama finds unexpected poetry in the Essex badlands
Film
Big River Man (15) and Bustin’ Down the Door (15)
- 03 September 2009
Two waterborne documentaries leave several questions floating
Film
Broken Embraces (15)
- 27 August 2009
The once searingly original Spanish auteur stoops to self-parody
Film
Inglourious Basterds (18)
- 20 August 2009
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Nazi hunters mix with cinema buffs in a return to form for Tarantino
Culture
Sin nombre (15)
- 13 August 2009
This immigrant tale is a flimsy but entertaining gangland thriller
Film
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (15)
- 06 August 2009
There’s life yet in the French gangster movie genre
Culture
Kambakkht Ishq (12A)
- 30 July 2009
There’s no need for Bollywood to appeal to Middle England – it’s a success already
Film
Antichrist (18)
- 23 July 2009
Lars von Trier’s Antichrist has provoked shock and disgust – even calls for it to be banned.
