Ethan Vestby

[TIFF Review] Raw

18-year-old Justine (Garance Marillier) is a meek vegetarian, which motivates her decision to enroll as a freshman at the same prestigious veterinary school as ...

[TIFF Review] Ta’ang

A text against a black screen informs us of the Ta’ang ethnicity belonging to Myanmar, a nation engulfed in an endless civil war, which happens to be driving it...

[TIFF Review] The Woman Who Left

Lav Diaz’s Golden Lion winner from this year's Venice Film Festival feels like something of a surprise because, for all its extended shots, luminous black-and-w...

[TIFF Review] Salt and Fire

Many lament the “meme-ification” of Werner Herzog, a name once synonymous with masculinist, bravura filmmaking that risked the lives of cast and crew for the sa...

[TIFF Review] The Dreamed Path

Angela Schanelec’s The Dreamed Path is so beguiling that we, the audience, have to take comfort in pointing out its one clear structural point: it's split into ...

[TIFF Review] The Belko Experiment

With the overwhelming presence of ideology on contemporary film criticism (this writer will admit that the majority of his festival coverage last year likely me...

[TIFF Review] The Assignment

In his heyday, Walter Hill made films of a thirty-year-or-so dissonance, everything he made in the '80s owing itself to the '50s, be it Robert Aldrich-Burt Lanc...

Ethan Vestby

Canadian, for better or worse.