About Defacto Film Reviews
Defacto Film Reviews is a unique site where the film critics are also filmmakers themselves. It will feature weekly reviews as well as lists and more.
Originally formed in 2002 under Defactoweb.com, our website’s chief film critic is Robert Joseph Butler. His top ten lists were featured under Movie City News. His reviews have also been published at Michigan Movie Magazine and on Michigan’s longest running film school website, MPIFilm.com.
He later went on to to become an award-winning filmmaker of several independent short films including such festival hits as The Spirit of Isabel and Within, which won the Audience Choice Award at the 2015 Cinetopia International Film Festival.
Using grassroots support, the site is devoted to celebrating independent and art-house cinema, as well as to high-crafted films that tell engaging stories with vision, focus, and skill.
Defacto Film Reviews is a unique case where the film critics are also filmmakers themselves. We will give readers comprehensible, honest, and erudite analysis of each film.
Black Bear
Lawrence Michael Levine is a part of the second generation of mumblecore filmmakers. Mumblecore is a “genre” of film in a way, but more so was a group of filmmakers that came up in the [...]
Sound of Metal
While having made its initial premiere at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, Sound of Metal, the feature length debut from filmmaker Darius Marder, is almost eerily timely for 2020. In a year such as [...]
David Fincher Retrospective (Film Rankings from Worst to Best)
Easily one of the greatest film artisans of our time, film director David Fincher has had a film directing spanning nearly thirty years. Fincher holds an impressive framework of films mostly involving protagonists who endure [...]
Happiest Season
Even though same sex attraction is something that has been with the human race most likely since the dawn of humanity—I’m sure cavemen weren’t only clubbing cavewomen, if ya know what I mean—I have never [...]
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist
‘The Exorcist’ is one of the most iconic films in film history, and quite frankly, one of the most iconic pieces of art in general. Most people have no doubt come across one of the [...]
Hillbilly Elegy
For every major awards contender, your Parasite's and Joker's of the year, also comes an occasional The Goldfinch. Ron Howard's latest outing, based on the New York Times bestselling novel "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of [...]
Ham On Rye
When I was in my late teens, I remember saying to my friends on a couple of occasions, that I felt like our lives were a movie; the late nite Denny’s parking lot hangouts, the [...]
Synchronic
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
After it's unprecedented global success of "Borat," Sacha Baron Cohen's iconic character went onto to be celebrated in pop culture around the world. A cartoonish stereotype, the Borat character was a pure embodiment of American's [...]
The Last Shift
We all need money. Every one of us is stuck in this system, whether we like it or not. And a lot of people are stuck in dead end jobs, where they are barely getting [...]
10 Essential Political Documentaries To Stream Now! 2020 Election
Ever since the success of Michael Moore's 2004 documentary masterpiece "Fahrenheit 9/11," many filmmakers since have went onto to direct many political documentaries all in hopes of shaping the election, but in the 2016 election [...]
The Empty Man
There's a strong likelihood that you've never heard of Disney/20th Century's newest release, The Empty Man, at least until a week ago when the first trailer was released. All signs would point to this film [...]