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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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
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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
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Talent that doesn't spoil
- 25 September 2008
Kristin Scott Thomas is austere, while Ed Harris pulls out all the stops I've Loved You So Long (12A) dir: Philippe Claudel Appaloosa (15) dir: Ed Harris
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A classy affair
- 18 September 2008
This tense dissection of a holiday fling unpicks bourgeois codes of etiquette Unrelated (15) dir: Joanna Hogg
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Dazed and confused
- 11 September 2008
This stoner comedy is muddled - and not because of the high-grade weed Pineapple Express (15) dir: David Gordon Green
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Outmoded behaviour
- 04 September 2008
Two period dramas rich in detail, but not so good at characterisation The Duchess (12A) dir: Saul Dibb Angel (15) dir: François Ozon
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Peaks and troughs
- 28 August 2008
Superb cinematic technique lightens this gruelling tale of hostile mountain life Times and Winds (15) dir: Reha Erdem
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Short, sweet and pricey
- 21 August 2008
A pleasantly trivial doodle of boyhood friendship in gritty north London Somers Town (12A) dir: Shane Meadows
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Hancock's two and a half hours
- 14 August 2008
A talented Russian creates suspense, but doesn't know what to do with it The Banishment (12A) dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev
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Shallow, botched, insidious
- 07 August 2008
Brazil's new hit has a reactionary message, leavened only by its incompetence Elite Squad (18) dir: José Padilha
