Gerard Gilbert
Bio
Gerard has been a television critic and feature writer for the Independent since 1994. He has also written about TV and cinema for Time Out, The New Statesman and Radio Times.
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MØ, Heaven, London review - snappy, sexy and energized
“I live to survive another heartache/I live to survive another mistake,” roars a sold-out Heaven. It’s a new song but everyone seems to know it....
'How that music was created remains to me a complete my...
It has been a difficult couple of years for us in the world of opera, losing several of our most respected and admired colleagues who have...
Top Gun: Maverick review - Tom Cruise defies age and gravity
Only 36 years later, Tom Cruise is back with his eagerly-awaited Top Gun sequel (it was delayed a couple of years by Covid), and there...
The Father and the Assassin, National Theatre review - Gandh...
The young Indian man stepping towards us on the vast Olivier stage is unremarkable enough, slight and boyish in manner. When he speaks he is...
Album: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Dirt Does Dylan
I have to confess, it’s a long time since I’ve thought about the Nitty Gritty Dirty Band and a new...
I Get Knocked Down, Brighton Festival review - Chumbawamba s...
One effect of the film I Get Knocked Down, a playfully constructed journey around the life of Chumbawamba vocalist Dunstan Bruce, is to...
Berrut, ECO, Guzzo, Cadogan Hall review - Schubert with a sm...
I came for the Schubert and it didn’t disappoint. Which was...
The Innocents review - they're just playing
The Innocents made a splash at Cannes in 2021 and it’s easy to see why. The ...
Blu-ray: I Am a Camera
The first film rendering of Christopher Isherwood’s experiences in early 1930s Berlin, I Am a Camera has been restored and released on...
The House of Shades, Almeida Theatre review - Anne-Marie Duf...
Anne-Marie Duff blazes across the stage like a meteorite in Beth Steel’s excoriating drama about the changes sweeping through a Northern mining...