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 [...]
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
This is one of those rare comedies with a title so brilliant it sets an incredibly high bar for the rest of the movie to clear. Thankfully, Gail Daughtry and [...]
The Invite
Four people—two couples who happen to be neighbors in the same apartment complex—finally meet one night in one of their living rooms. They gather and discuss everything from hobbies and [...]
Mid-Year Review: The Best Films so far of 2026
So far, 2026 has been a breakthrough year for cinematic underdogs, championed by indie filmmakers and surprise hits like Obsession and Backrooms. Exhausted by repetitive IP franchises, an oversaturated streaming [...]