4th Annual Defacto Film Awards
To celebrate the upcoming Oscars, we are pleased to announce the Best of 2021 nominees and winners in eighteen categories. We selected the top five picks in the following categories: [...]
The Outfit
An impressively written and wrought gangster thriller set in 1950s Chicago that is both dramatic and suspenseful, The Outfit marks the directorial debut of Oscar winning American screenwriter and author [...]
After Yang
The kind of sci-fi film that can easily be labeled as a thinking person's sci-fi, After Yang is a futuristic, emotionally tender sci-fi saga that merges innovative technology of the [...]
Cyrano
A joyous and equally heartbreaking musical, Cyrano brings Edmond Rostand's world-renowned play to more modernized sensibilities. It's very charming, as well as showcasing that Peter Dinklage yet again has what [...]
2002 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2002
2002, if nothing else, was a stellar year for genre reinvention. While audiences were lining up in doves for fantasy epics and superheroes way back in 2002 with The Lord [...]
Kimi
Returning to a more stripped-down style that he departed from recently with No Sudden Move and Let Them All Talk, Steven Soderberg retains his visual skills but dispenses with some [...]
Jockey
Just as the title suggests, Jockey is the title of a horse jockey in Clint Bentley's impressive debut feature that made its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. A [...]
Sundown
A very austere and deeply mysterious character study drama whose subtext is to expose the world's haves and have-nots, Sundown is Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco's most gripping and visually pleasing [...]
The Worst Person in the World
There's a reason for the film's title, but to think the main character is some one-dimensional woman who hurts, betrays, and eventually finds redemption in the full circle of things [...]
Belle
The eagerly awaited follow-up to the highly acclaimed Japanese animated feature Mirai, Mamoru Hosoda's latest Belle is a cleverly conceived updated adaptation of the classic Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont novel [...]