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Ryan Gilbey

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Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024) 80% EDIT “Tyler Taormina’s sprawling portrait of an Italian-American family’s festive gathering in Long Island makes for an enjoyably hazy Christmas movie. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 11, 2025 Full Review The People's Joker (2022) 96% EDIT “The film is hectic but not haphazard, its layers merging revealingly on the level of allusion and autobiography. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “My Beautiful Laundrette remains fresh, incisive, complex, [and] urgent.” – Independent (UK) Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “The Celluloid Closet is an important testimony to how cinema can alter preconceptions and life, which is one good reason to see it.” – Independent (UK) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “Although Boogie Nights functions successfully as a critique of masculinity, Anderson often gets caught up in his own boastful games.” – Independent (UK) Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Suburbia (1996) 68% EDIT “As Linklater demonstrated on Slacker and Dazed and Confused, his forte is the fluid direction of ensemble casts, and he moves among the eight main characters with a seductive ease and compassion worthy of Rohmer.” – Independent (UK) Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Shooting Fish (1997) 52% EDIT “You could stomach the relentless chirpiness if the writers Stefan Shwartz (who also directed) and Richard Holmes had invested any care in their characterisation. ” – Independent (UK) Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Hard Eight (1996) 82% EDIT “The film eventually becomes overbearingly portentous, and the poised dialogue makes Pinter's characters sound like after-dinner speakers. But Hard Eight is the work of a fine, intuitive new director, and a weather-ravaged, criminally under-used old pro.” – Independent (UK) Sep 22, 2025 Full Review The Postman (1994) 94% EDIT “The film manages a sober argument for the importance of poetry in everyday life, without once resorting to schoolboys standing on desks quoting Walt Whitman.” – Independent (UK) Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Canadian Bacon (1995) 15% EDIT “The writer-director Michael Moore has hit on a sharp idea for a skit... The satire is too toothless to draw blood, though, while the mildly starry cast are surprisingly obtrusive.” – Independent (UK) Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Mortal Kombat (1995) 44% EDIT “Such games thrive on interactivity, so watching the movie is like peering over someone's shoulder in an arcade, while heavy metal is blasted in your ears and a strobe light thrust into both eyes.” – Independent (UK) Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Fountain of Youth (2025) 35% 2/5 EDIT “Ritchie’s derivative yarn whisks John Krasinski off to picturesque spots on an uninspired search for treasure and excitement – neither of which arrive.” – Guardian May 22, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% EDIT “The movie isn't snappy or consistent, but it's bolstered by a handful of set-pieces which are dazzling enough to compensate for entire stretches when the most interesting thing on screen is Tom Cruise's haircut.” – Independent (UK) May 6, 2025 Full Review Cottontail (2023) 92% 3/5 EDIT “The curse of Beatrix Potter-associated cinema is lifted, at least temporarily, by the debut feature from Patrick Dickinson, even if his picture’s relationship to Potter’s work is purely tangential.” – Guardian Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Love Hurts (2025) 18% 2/5 EDIT “As Valentine’s Day treats go, however, Love Hurts is the cinematic equivalent of a wilted bouquet from a petrol station forecourt.” – Guardian Feb 6, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 83% EDIT “All that Scream 2 can do is load yet more icing on to a cake already collapsing under the weight of its own over-abundant decoration. ” – Independent (UK) Feb 5, 2025 Full Review Mulan (1998) 91% EDIT “Easily the most satisfying animated feature from Disney since the studio's commercial rejuvenation at the start of this decade, and the film's success is also unusually illuminating; in getting so much right it identifies what has been going so wrong. ” – Independent (UK) Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% EDIT “Given that two of the screenwriters, Bob Shaw and Donald McEnery, have collaborated on episodes of Seinfeld, it's disappointing that the film is more cheeky than funny. But at least they succeed in making the story's themes relevant to a modern audience.” – Independent (UK) Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 59% EDIT “For a film which has been heralded as painstakingly PC, Pocahontas's conscience stretches only to portraying American Indians as human beings which, in 1995, hardly qualifies as a particularly sophisticated perspective.” – Independent (UK) Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) 98% 2/5 EDIT “Though the interviews with the Reeve children are poignant and insightful, directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui show no signs of trusting their material.” – Guardian Oct 31, 2024 Full Review Juror #2 (2024) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Suspense is kept on a low flame but the film offers cosy pleasures, not least in the jury-room wrangles; one thing Henry Fonda never had to deal with in 12 Angry Men was the pernicious influence of true-crime podcasts.” – Guardian Oct 30, 2024 Full Review The Penguin Lessons (2024) 78% 2/5 EDIT “There is a glass-half-full approach and then there is submerging reality so deeply in whimsy, sentimentality and cultural cliche that it needn’t be there at all. ” – Guardian Sep 7, 2024 Full Review The Tango Lesson (1997) 52% 3/4 EDIT “The Tango Lesson proves beyond doubt that Potter is adept at breaking down established boundaries between artist and audience.” – Independent (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997) 14% EDIT “[An] infantile sex comedy.” – Independent (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review A Merry War (1997) 69% 1/4 EDIT “The picture feels awfully insubstantial. ” – Independent (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review
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