Film Reviews & Insights
8th Annual DeFacto Film Awards
Welcome to the 8th annual De Facto Film Awards! In honor of the Oscars airing on March 15th, we ended up tabulating our personal picks, as voted on by our [...]
The Bride!
The Bride! is the new film from Maggie Gyllenhaal. While the film is at times visually audacious, this is a work that could have benefited from less “lets just do [...]
Pillion
It is the duty of storytellers to explore various areas of humanity and its behavior, ideally without judgement or bias to achieve the most honest portrayal of their subject as [...]
Scream 7
Just three years ago, the Scream franchise was on top of the world. Scream 6 posted the franchise's highest opening at the box office, even if the film itself hardly [...]
Dreams
Some films come with a message, and others more an intention. Dreams is a film that seems to believe it has both, yet fails to ignite interest. From Michel Franco, who did [...]
Wuthering Heights
Like the newest Dracula film by Luc Besson, the latest Wuthering Heights seeks to reinvent a timeless classic novel that has spawned countless film and television adaptations, each tackling different aspects of the [...]
The Moment
Pop star Charli XCX was catapulted into the mainstream with the release of her spectacular 2024 album "brat". Having worked in the industry for over a decade, Charli's mainstream success [...]
Dracula
It is beyond the scope of a review to explore and analyze exactly what it is about certain stories that demand to be retold not just every century but often [...]
Crime 101
Bart Layton's 2017 breakthrough film, American Animals, was a unique and ambitious attempt at telling a true-crime story through the fusion of fictional and non-fiction storytelling. The filmmaker began his [...]
Jimpa
Jimpa opens decently well in its first moments, with Olivia Colman as Hannah, an Australian acting teacher and director, preparing to visit her father. She is taking her husband and [...]
Calle Malaga
Some films can get by on visual splendor, and others on character. Some, of course, manage through plot or pure nerve. Calle Malaga is none of these. It is a lovely [...]