3-1/2 Stars – DeFacto Film Reviews

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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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Joker

By Noah Damron|2019-10-04T04:25:03+00:0010/03/2019|

The character of The Joker has seen countless interpretations over the character’s near 80 years of existence. First debuting in the comic “Batman #1” in 1940, the character has become [...]

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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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Hustlers

By Noah Damron|2019-09-14T22:28:13+00:0009/14/2019|

After the unexpected buzz out of TIFF left many suddenly scrambling to put this film on their awards radar, I can confirm that one of the year’s biggest surprises has [...]

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The Angry Birds Movie 2

By Ben Rothrock|2019-08-26T15:44:20+00:0008/26/2019|

Now that superhero movies are no longer the bottom barrel genre of the film industry, one genre still holds that title: video game movies. This is still a tough subject [...]

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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

By Ben Rothrock|2019-08-02T15:25:31+00:0008/02/2019|

The Fast & Furious franchise has been with us for almost 20 years at this point, and it is still going strong. After the last two entries, Furious 7 and [...]

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Crawl

By Noah Damron|2019-07-12T20:44:07+00:0007/12/2019|

Who knew that of all the major studios in Hollywood, Paramount Pictures would be the one to release the most consistently vicious and tension-filled genre films of the late 2010's. [...]

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Midsommar

By Noah Damron|2019-07-08T00:02:44+00:0007/08/2019|

Ari Aster's first feature, last year's sleeper hit, "Hereditary", was a film that haunted my dreams. Etched itself inside my soul. Made me think long and hard about my own [...]

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Rocketman

By Noah Damron|2019-06-01T09:54:17+00:0006/01/2019|

It’s hard not to compare “Rocketman" to the most recent music biopic of an acclaimed rock legend in last year’s Oscar-winning, mega-hit "Bohemian Rhapsody". Not only because they cover similar [...]

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Non-Fiction

By Robert Joseph Butler|2019-06-01T00:24:15+00:0005/31/2019|

Greatly influenced by the works of Erik Rohmer that also plays out like an excellent Woody Allen comedy like "Husbands and Wives", French auteur Olivier Assayas has crafted a sharply [...]

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