Michelle Yeoh flits between universes in the hyperactive Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s latest action-comedy brings a 21st-century approach to parallel-reality cinema.
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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 27 Press Gazette awards and is film critic in residence at Falmouth University.
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