Review Round Up 1/27
This past month has been quite busy over here on DeFacto, and there were quite a few films we weren't able to make time for. So to make up for [...]
Film About a Father Who
Families hold many complexities and dysfunctions. Stories are often passed on from person to person, and many times it leads to siblings, mothers, fathers, and other members to feel bitter, [...]
MLK/FBI
An indisputable powerful documentary, "MLK/FBI" concerns the endless public feud between former Director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.--who was murdered in [...]
Locked Down
Timely but implausible, stylish but inconsistent, Doug Liman's "Locked Down" is a modernist narrative that's setting is during the early stages of the COVID-19 lock down, an amalgam of many [...]
Pieces of a Woman
Life partners and creative duo Kornel Mundruczo and Kata Weber, known for idiosyncratic work such as White God and Jupiter's Moon, have tapped into a highly personal story with their latest [...]
One Night in Miami
Empowering in ideas and full of compelling moments, "One Night in Miami" isn't your comprehensive biopic or period piece of the celebrated historical icons on display in Regina King's directorial [...]
Ghost Tropic
Bas Devos's hypnotic and woozy Belgium film centers on a middle-aged Muslim woman, a widow, who gets lost during the late hours in Brussels. The film becomes very dreamlike and [...]
A Sun
The artistic and critical success of such films as "The Godfather," "The Best of Youth," "The Tree of Life, "Boyhood," and "Another Year" have truly revived more sprawling films to [...]
News of the World by Ian Courtney
We live in an age of information overload. Twitter feeds, Instagram stories, Reddit threads, Facebook posts, podcasts, streaming services, text messages, email, etc; they are all coming at us a [...]
Promising Young Woman
It's rare for a film to embody a sense of style and attitude within the very first minute; or in the case of Promising Young Woman, the first directorial feature [...]