The Best Films of 2025 – Editors’ Choice
Do not believe anyone that tells you 2025 was a weak year for cinema. In many respects, 2025 was an embarrassment of riches for many different genres and styles of [...]
Year in Review: The Best Films of 2025
As I walked out of the New York Film Festival back in the fall, I knew I could easily develop a top ten list upon the festival because I knew [...]
2010 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2010
Reflecting back to the state of cinema from 2010 to now shows both a progression and regression in how we watch films. Sadly, so many boutique films in the metro [...]
1995 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1995
The 1990s will always be perceived as a superlative decade for cinema. Especially 1995, a year where so many films brewed into classics as the years went by. From game-changing [...]
P.T. Anderson Retrospective (Film Rankings from Worst to Best)
Easily one of the most extraordinary and gifted visionaries working today, Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the world's most celebrated and renowned filmmakers of our era. With the release [...]
2005 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2005
2005 in many ways resembles 2025. Politically, it was a miserable year, as we were in the first year of the second term of George W. Bush, and we had [...]
Ash
"Ash" will worm its way into your brain, sure, but leave much of its sordid alien world and the human crew inhabiting it narratively wanting.
7th Annual DeFacto Film Awards
Welcome to the 7th annual DeFacto Film Awards! In honor of the Oscars airing tonight, please enjoy our personal picks, as voted on by our writers. This year our selections [...]
Top 10 Films of 2024 – Editors’ Choice
Despite many who have claimed as such, 2024 was a stellar year for cinema. Coming off contentious strike delays that saw a slow start to the year, 2024 gave audiences [...]
Year in Review: The Best Films of 2024
As we entered the fall movie season; I had already rated six films my highest rating of four stars. I wasn't sure if I was overrating things, but as the [...]