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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. His reviews have also been featured and published in The Oakland Press as well, which is one of Michigan’s largest newspaper publications. 

He later went on 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. His short film “The Girl on the Mat” won Best Screenplay at the 2017 Queens World Film Festival. His most recent feature length movie, “Blood Immortal,” won Best Horror Feature Film at the 24th annual Indie Gathering International Film Festival and is now available to own on DVD and is available on Digital streaming platforms.

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.

Rating System–4 Stars

4 Stars Masterpiece/Top 10 Worthy

de facto film reviews 3.5 stars Exceptional

de facto film reviews 3 stars Quality

de facto film reviews 2 stars Mediocre

de facto film reviews 1 star Poor

Reviews published in

The Oakland Press – Oakland County, MI News, Sports, Weather, Things to Do

Armand

By |02/01/2025|2025, 3-Stars, Film Review|

Armand is a story about the nature of truth, and perception. It is about the lengths one is willing to go to exact a toll, and how that affects others around them. As the story begins, [...]

Presence

By |01/26/2025|2025, 3-Stars, Film Review|

Highly prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh once delivered some innovation with his skillfully mounted ghost story Presence, in which he once again utilizes digital cameras to capture the aesthetic of the shots being in the point [...]

Wolf Man

By |01/23/2025|2 Stars, 2025, Film Review|

With three prior botched attempts at relaunching their own Universal Classic Monsters Universe with the 2004 flop Van Helsing, 2014's Dracula Untold, and the disastrous 2017 Tom Cruise vehicle The Mummy, Universal decided to step [...]

September 5

By |01/17/2025|2 Stars, 2024, Film Review|

September 5 is a dramatization of the events surrounding ABC Sports coverage of the Israeli hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Games. Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, the film features a fine cast headlined by Peter Sarsgaard [...]

Vermiglio

By |01/11/2025|2024, 3-Stars, Film Review|

Vermiglio, from Italian director Maura Delpero, is a story of a village and a culture, during the latter half of the Second World War. The stunning photography, by Mikhail Krichman, is among the loveliest work in [...]

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