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Ryan Gilbey

Ryan Gilbey is the New Statesman's film critic. He is also 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.

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Film
Jobs for the boys
18 June 2009

Ryan Gilbey salutes a new wave of British film-makers, but wonders: where are all the women?

Film
Looking for Eric (15)
11 June 2009

Loach’s most upbeat film yet delivers moments of magic without convincing

Film
Sugar (15)
04 June 2009

A rookie baseball player is chewed up by the American sports industry

Film
Wild boy falls far from glory
28 May 2009

McG’s extension of the Terminator franchise is woefully misconceived

Film
Anatomy of a murderous milieu
21 May 2009

The veteran French director’s X-ray lens is as sharply focused as it ever was

Film
Through the looking glass
14 May 2009

Charlie Kaufman's mind-bending directorial debut is both big and clever

Film
Darling, you were wonderful
07 May 2009

The world of an ageing courtesan is made too seductive for its own good

Film
The girl who isn’t there
30 April 2009

A pan-European production that makes a virtue of ambiguity

Film
Don’t hold the front page
23 April 2009

Hollywood bungles an adaptation of a thriller about crime-busting journalists

TV and Radio
Look who’s talking
16 April 2009

Armando Iannucci’s big-screen debut takes aim at politicians’ desecration of language

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