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 [...]
Practical Magic 2
When Practical Magic came out in the fall of 1998, directed by Griffin Dunne from the 1995 novel by Alice Hoffman, it did modest business. Its stars Sandra Bullock, as straight-laced Sally [...]
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 [...]
Resident Evil
The prospect of a new Resident Evil film adaptation may not be the most enticing to both film audiences and gamers alike. However, when news dropped that writer/director Zach Cregger, [...]
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 [...]
Coyote vs. Acme
It was legendary film producer Edward R. Pressman who said that every film is a miracle. A combination of sheer determination, luck and talent, filmmaking is a miraculous feat even [...]
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 [...]
Insidious: Out of the Further
James Wan's original Insidious film was a major sleeper hit when it was released in the spring of 2011, grossing over $100 million worldwide on a $1 million budget. Wan's [...]
Sheep in the Box
Hirokazu Kore-Eda is one of Japan’s great film makers, but with Sheep in a Box, he has made a rare misstep. This is not a bad film, but it is a [...]