Ryan Gilbey
Bio
was named Reviewer of the Year in the 2007 Press Gazette Magazine Awards. He is the film critic of the New Statesman and also contributes to the Guardian and Sunday Times. He is the author of It Don’t Worry Me, about the American cinema in the 1970s, and a study of Groundhog Day in the BFI Modern Classics series.
Articles By Ryan Gilbey
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Persian Lessons review - confusing Holocaust drama
This is an odd film, made even odder by a caption near the beginning, which claims it is "inspired by true events" but doesn’t elaborate. Produced...
Album: Bicep - Isles
Bicep's second album fufills the promise of the first, released in 2017 to wide acclaim. Andrew Ferguson and Matthew McBriar, friends since...
Quo Vadis, Aida review - a Bosnian woman confronts genocide
Jasmila Žbanić’s latest film, once again about the people...
Back, Channel 4 review - return of sibling-rivalry comedy wi...
It has taken three years for the second series of Back to reach our screens (a combination of the creator being busy, a star being unwell...
Call My Agent!, Series 4, Netflix review - the final bow for...
Sad to report, this fourth series of Call My Agent! (...
Album: Wardruna - Kvitravn
Norway’s Wardruna have proved to be an unlikely international musical success, both within Scandinavia and further afield, since releasing their...
'The total confusion about post-Brexit rules adds to th...
“Fuck business,” Boris Johnson is alleged to have said while Foreign Secretary. (He didn’t deny it). We have seen enough over the past three weeks...
Album: Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By Side B
Becoming a has-been is Eminem’s main raw material now, the...
76 Days review - disturbing record of the initial outbreak o...
It is probable that no other document gets closer to the direct experience of frontline workers and victims of...