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Ethan Vestby

Ethan Vestby's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% EDIT “Fiennes has headlined so much Oscar bait and Europudding over the decades that you forget his true joie de vivre as a performer, particularly for exquisite comic timing.” – The Film Stage Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Easy's Waltz (2025) 75% EDIT “It's odd as a Gen X text when the film’s narrative and formal creakiness suggest something directed by an 87-year-old. ” – The Film Stage Sep 14, 2025 Full Review The Fence (2025) 70% EDIT “It can even be said that her newest, The Fence, plays like a final film––not necessarily as a grand summation or statement, but like a stripping-down of almost everything possible. ” – The Film Stage Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “It seems to want you leaving the theater on an unsettled note, but you’re probably just going to be regaling your friends with Michael Shannon telling off the Pope about antisemitism with an Aaron Sorkin-esque zinger.” – The Film Stage Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “Tatum basically oozes charisma, and you’re reminded of what a better actor he actually is than most Academy Award-winning A-listers. ” – The Film Stage Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% EDIT “Both the distributor and actress seem to have similarly malignant aims for the medium of cinema in making this.” – The Film Stage Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Sacrifice (2025) 38% EDIT “The film is ultimately too sentimental and not acidic enough because it can never really bear itself to bring down the world from which it’s borne. ” – The Film Stage Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% EDIT “It’s pretty hard to shake how dull and perfunctory the entire thing is; a lack of passion emanates from almost everyone involved. ” – The Film Stage Jul 2, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% EDIT “It’s a case where Boyle's frenetic energy, paired with returning writer Alex Garland’s structurally odd screenplay, creates a film that one never feels a step ahead of––a deep compliment for something about to be unleashed on multiplexes.” – The Film Stage Jun 19, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% EDIT “I know it’s odd to ding a shark thriller for not being more ambitious, but that’s what happens when it’s also not really entertaining enough. ” – The Film Stage Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Black Tea (2024) 33% EDIT “A western viewer ascribing traditional demands to Sissako’s cinema is, for a number of reasons, likely wrongheaded, but one still feels something lodged too awkwardly between two worlds of film from it––something neither rapturous nor penetrating. ” – The Film Stage May 8, 2025 Full Review Henry Johnson (2025) 62% EDIT “Watching the film, you’re reminded that we can come to some kind of mutual understanding with those on the other side.” – The Film Stage May 5, 2025 Full Review Henry Fonda for President (2024) 83% EDIT “At a time when people’s parasocial relationship with stars plays out to disturbing ends on social media every day, Horwath’s epic presents a thesis not so far drawn from our tendency for projection.” – The Film Stage Apr 1, 2025 Full Review The Woman in the Yard (2025) 41% EDIT “The director’s form is additionally assisted by his performers; Deadwyler’s large expressive eyes and Okpokwasili’s sharp cheekbones cast as much a spell as the occasional forays into computer-generated expressionism. ” – The Film Stage Mar 28, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% C EDIT “It isn’t stupid, dull, or badly made per se, but it’s unlikeable, and awfully smug for something not that high on insight or genuine surprise. ” – The Film Stage Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Every Little Thing (2024) 95% B- EDIT “Masear, as a subject, rubs off on the viewer in a positive fashion, the biography she’s willing to provide us making her instantly sympathetic” – The Film Stage Jan 10, 2025 Full Review Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025) 62% B EDIT “ It’s a mix of maximalism and sparseness that would likely make Jean-Pierre Melville proud.” – The Film Stage Jan 10, 2025 Full Review Saturday Night (2024) 77% C- EDIT “ While this may be a ’70s period piece (complete with era-replicating sheen) the climax where we’re supposed to cheer on a producer getting corporate acceptance points to a work as subtly evil as the ’80s ideology of his dad’s Reaganite comedies.” – The Film Stage Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% B EDIT “If able to recognize the canny bit of emotional manipulation, all the same I must appreciate it still getting me through every nerve-wracking setpiece with a deep level of investment. ” – The Film Stage Sep 10, 2024 Full Review The Return (2024) 78% C- EDIT “Not giving off the sense of a visual filmmaker, Pasolini isn’t quite able to tell his story through these bodies, though––a talky affair where dull power dynamics to take the crown hold precedence over everything else” – The Film Stage Sep 9, 2024 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% B+ EDIT “Fanatics of “late style” will certainly admire the simplicity and patience.” – The Film Stage Sep 7, 2024 Full Review Bonjour Tristesse (2024) 68% B EDIT “Chew-Bose’s project isn’t so much feminist as feminine––that a working-out of neurosis that doesn’t provide completely easy answers. ” – The Film Stage Sep 7, 2024 Full Review This Closeness (2023) 91% B EDIT “The film effectively communicates how we’re all fundamentally lonely and what comes from the process of talking to yourself over and over, an individual’s minor insecurities building into grand crevasses for a relationship. ” – The Film Stage Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Slow (2023) 93% C EDIT “In shying away from more specific anxieties of modern love, one can’t help but think of all the things it’s avoiding in general by pushing the onscreen relationship to more interesting places.” – The Film Stage May 3, 2024 Full Review Omen (2023) 87% B EDIT “The film gradually becomes more confident in its time- and space-traveling, encompassing something greater than its seeming initial intent.” – The Film Stage Apr 12, 2024 Full Review
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