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

Results 51 to 60 of 189

Ice and fire

  • 04 December 2008

In 2008 Tilda Swinton completed her transformation from art-house darling to Hollywood power player. She is rounding off the year with two more stunning performances

Motherhood, madness and melodrama

  • 27 November 2008
  • 2 comments

Heavy-handed direction turns one woman's ordeal into a sensationalist affair Changeling (15) dir: Clint Eastwood

Thanks for the memories

  • 20 November 2008

An unsettling and inspired exploration of how the trauma of war affects the mind Waltz With Bashir (18) dir: Ari Folman

Killing to be cool

  • 13 November 2008

Black-leather glam over-romanticises the real story of this 1970s guerrilla gang The Baader Meinhof Complex (18) dir: Uli Edel

Misunderestimating George

  • 06 November 2008
  • 1 comment

Is the horror of the Bush years beyond satire? Stone's bland effort suggests so W (15) dir: Oliver Stone

Celebrating masochism

  • 30 October 2008
  • 2 comments

The latest James Bond blockbuster is little more than the usual exercise in designer violence, while an astounding portrait of the 1980s IRA hunger strikers takes film into visceral territory

Stepford school friends

  • 23 October 2008

Disney's cheerful cash cow is honest in ways grittier youth films can't match High School Musical 3: Senior Year (U) dir: Kenny Ortega

That superior feeling

  • 16 October 2008

The Coen brothers' espionage comedy is an exercise in smugness Burn After Reading (15) dir: Joel and Ethan Coen

An offer you can't refuse

  • 09 October 2008

The glamour gets scrubbed off the Mob in this Italian drama Gomorrah (15) dir: Matteo Garrone

Once in a lifetime

  • 02 October 2008

A child's unearthly performance is at the heart of this brilliant directorial effort The Fall (15) dir: Tarsem

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

Vote!

Was the government wrong to sack David Nutt?

Suggest a question

View comments

© New Statesman 1913 – 2009

Tracker