The Social Reckoning
Sixteen years after The Social Network—the undisputed masterpiece that dissected Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s origins, and the treacherous deceptions behind the social media giant as Aaron Sorkin returns to the same [...]
NYFF 64 2026 Recap
Farewell to the New York Film Festival and to New York City as there is truly nothing quite like the rhythm of these past few days. Stepping out of Lincoln [...]
Fjord
Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d'Or-winning masterpiece Fjord stands as the Romanian auteur’s most complex, absorbing, and brilliant work to date, which is a staggering achievement considering a filmography that already boasts [...]
Digger (Spoilers)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Digger is a staggering, breathtaking triumph of cinema. It's a colossal, wildly ambitious masterpiece that operates on a scale few modern filmmakers would even dare to attempt. [...]
Primetime
Lance Oppenheim's Primetime is a biting, deeply unsettling film that operates as a razor-sharp satire, a suffocating dark comedy in the vein of Gus Van San'ts To Die For, and [...]
Hope
Na Hong-jin’s Hope marks the celebrated director’s long-awaited return, arriving a full ten years after his highly impressive and much celebrated 2016 horror thriller The Wailing. Known for his unmatched [...]
The Uprising
Paul Greengrass returns to historical conflict with The Uprising, delivering yet another iteration of the legend of Robin Hood, though he notably avoids ever uttering the iconic hero's name. Instead, [...]
1990 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1990
With the completion of our 1990 retrospective, De Facto Film Reviews officially marks a major milestone: our archived Top 10 lists now stretch back through every single year of the [...]
The Dog Stars
Ridley Scott remains astonishingly prolific, churning out scale-driven features with a relentless momentum that puts directors half his age to shame. His latest entry, The Dog Stars, marks another foray [...]
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a brilliant, deeply personal, and metatextual tribute to '80s slasher cinema. Like I Saw the TV Glow, Schoenbrun uses dark [...]