Palmer
Well intended with a heart, but ultimately trite and not overly surprising on a dramatic level, Palmer is a well acted but flawed film that comes across more like a [...]
Sundance Film Festival 2021 Coverage: Day Two
Day two of our Sundance 2021 coverage includes review for I Was a Simple Man, John and the Hole and In the Earth. Keep checking throughout the week for more [...]
Supernova
A tender and greatly acted drama about dementia, Supernova announces the sophomore feature from talented writer-director,Harry MacQueen (Hitlerland.) Slated for a limited theatrical release, and a VOD release in early [...]
Sundance Film Festival 2021 Coverage: Day One
With this year's Sundance Film Festival taking place virtually, we were able to "attend" the festival this year. Throughout each day of Sundance, we'll give you reviews of all the [...]
Review Round Up 1/27
This past month has been quite busy over here on DeFacto, and there were quite a few films we weren't able to make time for. So to make up for [...]
Film About a Father Who
Families hold many complexities and dysfunctions. Stories are often passed on from person to person, and many times it leads to siblings, mothers, fathers, and other members to feel bitter, [...]
MLK/FBI
An indisputable powerful documentary, "MLK/FBI" concerns the endless public feud between former Director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.--who was murdered in [...]
The White Tiger
Ramin Bahrani's screen version of Arvind Adiga's best-selling novel is certainly hit-or-miss, a visceral, tragic melodrama that plods along with many sudden tonal shifts from scene to scene, while leaving [...]
Locked Down
Timely but implausible, stylish but inconsistent, Doug Liman's "Locked Down" is a modernist narrative that's setting is during the early stages of the COVID-19 lock down, an amalgam of many [...]
The Best Films of 2020 – Noah Damron
2020 was unquestionably the most difficult year for us as a collective whole. Through the unimaginable hardships some of us have had to endure, to the newfound outlook of being [...]