Robert Joseph Butler – DeFacto Film Reviews

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The Laundromat

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-10-19T17:39:27+00:0010/18/2019|

Steven Soderbergh explores the true-life, largely reported Panama Papers scandal with his second feature released this year, "The Laundromat", though with a first-rate cast, the end results are very dull [...]

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Lucky Day

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-10-19T17:35:42+00:0010/18/2019|

As "Lucky Day" unfolds, you almost feel as if you just rented a post-Pulp Fiction 1990's spin-off movie from your local video store. Remember such titles as "Things to Do [...]

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Judy

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-10-19T17:32:24+00:0010/18/2019|

Indeed superior to something dull like "Bohemian Rhapsody", but also nowhere near as complex as something like "La Vie En Rose", or as innovative as Todd Haynes "I'm Not There", [...]

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Parasite

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-10-11T21:08:48+00:0010/11/2019|

Bong Joon-ho returns to his homeland of South Korea, in his new film "Parasite". His audacious style and genre-driven sensibilities still reign supreme, yet this time his ideology and idealism [...]

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Monos

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-10-05T03:12:41+00:0010/05/2019|

"Monos", the latest South American movie to come out of Columbia is an austere, deeply abstract, and equally frustrating film that gives no answers, or barely any clarity for its [...]

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Ad Astra

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-09-20T22:46:42+00:0009/20/2019|

"Ad Astra" marks the seventh feature film, but the first major mainstream film, by auteur James Gray. Most of his previous films were intimate films set in New York City, [...]

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The Nightingale

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-09-06T17:43:53+00:0009/05/2019|

15 minutes into "The Nightingale" involves a brutal murder, two rapes and an infant baby being thrown into the walls of a cabin. It is completely horrifying to endure. In [...]

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Quentin Tarantino Retrospective–Best Tarantino Films, Ranked

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-08-22T21:55:11+00:0008/22/2019|

Quentin Tarantino's is perhaps the most celebrated filmmaker to arise in the last 25 years. It is insane to think that someone with so much caliber and pristine only has [...]

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Where’d You Go, Bernadette

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-08-21T16:52:51+00:0008/21/2019|

About 15 mins through Richard Linklater's adaptation of Maria Semple's popular novel "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" you instantly know you are in for one painful ride. Everything from the [...]

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Fall Movie Preview 2019–16 Titles to Get Excited For

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-08-21T17:34:44+00:0008/16/2019|

As summer is coming close to an end, 2019 has been a stacked this year with many great offerings such as Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", Nuri [...]

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