Ryan Gilbey

Ryan Gilbey has been writing on film for more than 30 years. He was named the Independent / Sight and Sound Young Film Journalist of the Year in 1993 at the age of 22, won a Press Gazette award for his reviews at the New Statesman, where he was film critic from 2006 until 2023, and has written for the Guardian since 2002. He is the author of It Don't Worry Me (Faber), a book about 1970s US cinema, and a study of Groundhog Day in the BFI Modern Classics series. His latest book, It Used to Be Witches: Under the Spell of Queer Cinema, will be published by Faber in 2025. He lives in London.