Paris, 13th District
An elegantly made, playful, intimate, and ultimately sincere take on love in the modern era that consists of dating apps, social media, hook-ups, friends with benefits, and other newfound desires, [...]
1997 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1997
The monumental film of the time was James Cameron's Titanic, which broke box-office records and won 11 Oscars; including best picture and director. It was a landmark piece of cinema [...]
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The absurdist duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (aka The Daniels) conjures up a dizzying, formally visual, and messy metaphysical confection of many bombastic ideas in Everything Everywhere All [...]
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Following up with critically acclaimed hits like Dazed and Confused, Boyhood, and Everybody Wants Some, Richard Linklater demonstrated how fondly he remembers his youth and how much he draws from [...]
Oscar Predictions 2022
The Academy Awards will be televised a little earlier than they were last year, but it's already set to be a failure after years of declining ratings, Twitter backlash from [...]
Infinite Storm
Many films about survival have merged natural landscapes with the themes of man versus nature--or in this case, woman versus nature--where characters find themselves under brutal and very hazardous weather [...]
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 [...]