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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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Taking on the big screen? Doh!

  • 26 July 2007
  • 1 comment

The classic cartoon is transformed into a disappointingly mediocre film
The Simpsons Movie (PG)dir: David Silverman

Where ghosts deal out death

  • 19 July 2007
  • 2 comments

The candid, almost complicit, camera on Haiti's gangsters tells a gripping story
Ghosts of Cité Soleil (15) dir: Asger Leth

Masterminded by Muggles

  • 12 July 2007

Harry Potter has amassed 12 hours of screen time, but real magic eludes him
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (12A) dir: David Yates

Story of a charmless man

  • 05 July 2007

David Mamet's tale of middle-class crisis is self-consciously provocative
Edmond (18) dir: Stuart Gordon

A sequel too far

  • 28 June 2007

The animated ogre is back, but this time he's only in it for the money
Shrek the Third (U) dir: Chris Miller

A life less ordinary

  • 21 June 2007
  • 1 comment

The turbulent tale of Édith Piaf is rendered vividly by a clever director
La Vie en rose (12A)
dir: Olivier Dahan
Paris, je t'aime (15)
dirs: various

Enemy of the people

  • 14 June 2007

Despite a few stylistic slip-ups, this is a chilling tale of US imperialism
The War on Democracy (18)
dirs: John Pilger, Chris Martin

Dead in the water

  • 28 May 2007

A sterile adaptation of Raymond Carver is outdone by a gay high-school drama
Jindabyne (15)
dir: Ray Lawrence
Wild Tigers I Have Known (18)
dir: Cam Archer

Watching the detectives

  • 21 May 2007

This thriller defies conventions to show the true personal cost of a murder case
Zodiac (15)
dir: David Fincher

Whitewashed and watered down

  • 14 May 2007
  • 2 comments

Mandela is relegated to the sidelines of his own life in this cowardly biopic
Goodbye Bafana (15)
dir: Bille August

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