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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Film
Don’t hold the front page
- 23 April 2009
Hollywood bungles an adaptation of a thriller about crime-busting journalists
Television
Look who’s talking
- 16 April 2009
Armando Iannucci’s big-screen debut takes aim at politicians’ desecration of language
Film
Nightmare on Elk Street
- 09 April 2009
Can gruesome horror flourish in the kingdom of flat-pack furniture?
Film
The great rock’n’roll swindle
- 02 April 2009
This boorish romp does a disservice to the memory of 1960s pirate radio
Film
The timid script brings a parochial feel to the celebrated manager’s story
- 26 March 2009
The Damned United (15) dir: Tom Hooper
Film
Too much of a feel-good thing
- 19 March 2009
Under Labour, British cinema has enjoyed a commercial renaissance. If only more film-makers were willing to take risks
Film
Chinks in his Armani
- 19 March 2009
The life of Italy’s malevolent former leader is rendered in unforgiving style Il Divo (15) dir: Paolo Sorrentino
Film
Australia’s underbelly
- 12 March 2009
Fond memories of the lurid world of “Ozploitation” cinema Not Quite Hollywood (18) dir: Mark Hartley
Film
One woman and her dog
- 05 March 2009
Kelly Reichardt’s latest film revives Italian neo-realism in America’s west Wendy and Lucy (15) dir: Kelly Reichardt
Film
Please, sir, can we have some more?
- 26 February 2009
Here's a classroom drama that is neither lecture nor tear-stained ode The Class (15) dir: Laurent Cantet
