Primetime
Lance Oppenheim's Primetime is a biting, deeply unsettling film that operates as a razor-sharp satire, a suffocating dark comedy in the vein of Gus Van San'ts To Die For, and [...]
Hope
Na Hong-jin’s Hope marks the celebrated director’s long-awaited return, arriving a full ten years after his highly impressive and much celebrated 2016 horror thriller The Wailing. Known for his unmatched [...]
The Uprising
Paul Greengrass returns to historical conflict with The Uprising, delivering yet another iteration of the legend of Robin Hood, though he notably avoids ever uttering the iconic hero's name. Instead, [...]
1990 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1990
With the completion of our 1990 retrospective, De Facto Film Reviews officially marks a major milestone: our archived Top 10 lists now stretch back through every single year of the [...]
The Dog Stars
Ridley Scott remains astonishingly prolific, churning out scale-driven features with a relentless momentum that puts directors half his age to shame. His latest entry, The Dog Stars, marks another foray [...]
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a brilliant, deeply personal, and metatextual tribute to '80s slasher cinema. Like I Saw the TV Glow, Schoenbrun uses dark [...]
Late Fame
Kent Jones has made one of the most organic transitions in contemporary American cinema. Moving from esteemed film critic and scholar to co-writing Martin Scorsese's My Voyage to Italy film [...]
I Want Your Sex
Legendary indie auteur Gregg Araki’s latest erotic dark comedy, I Want Your Sex, may lack the dreamlike surrealism of his earlier work, but it taps directly into the central obsession [...]
Her Private Hell
With Her Private Hell, Danish visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn continues the slow-burn, neon-bathed, abstract genre filmmaking he began shaping with 2013's polarizing Only God Forgives. Marking his long-awaited return [...]
The Odyssey–Robert Butler’s Take
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek story, The Odyssey, is nothing short of a cinematic miracle. This is not a sterile, classicized myth preserved in amber; it is a [...]