About Defacto Film Reviews
Defacto Film Reviews is a unique site where the film critics are also filmmakers themselves. It will feature weekly reviews as well as lists and more.
Originally formed in 2002 under Defactoweb.com, our website’s chief film critic is Robert Joseph Butler. His top ten lists were featured under Movie City News. His reviews have also been published at Michigan Movie Magazine and on Michigan’s longest running film school website, MPIFilm.com.
He later went on to to become an award-winning filmmaker of several independent short films including such festival hits as The Spirit of Isabel and Within, which won the Audience Choice Award at the 2015 Cinetopia International Film Festival.
Using grassroots support, the site is devoted to celebrating independent and art-house cinema, as well as to high-crafted films that tell engaging stories with vision, focus, and skill.
Defacto Film Reviews is a unique case where the film critics are also filmmakers themselves. We will give readers comprehensible, honest, and erudite analysis of each film.
The Card Counter
After the high acclaim of First Reformed (2018), iconic writer-director Paul Schrader is once again back at directing his own screenplays that continues his brilliant sensibilities of traumatized and isolated men who recount their thoughts [...]
The Protégé
Director Martin Campbell has had an interesting career, from directing gritty and exceptional spy films like Casino Royale (2006) and GoldenEye (1995) to the nearly atrocious Green Lantern (2011). But regardless of some of his [...]
2006 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2006–15 Year Anniversary
It was a time where the War in Iraq saturated the news but it was on filmmaker's minds in 2006 as well, as George W Bush's incompetence and lies were unfolding deep that year, many [...]
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Kevin Feige and the folks over at Marvel have undoubtedly found a formula for success; the kind of formula that currently rules Hollywood with an iron fist. A formula so strong that most every film [...]
2021 Fall Movie Preview-18 New Films to See This Fall Season!
With fall just around the corner, it’s hard to determine just how many of the exceptional films I mentioned below will make the final top 10 list at the end of the year. One thing [...]
The Night House
David Bruckner, continues his horror sensibilities after the mixed 2017 horror film The Ritual, directed this psychological horror melodrama, starring Rebecca Hall as a depressed school teacher who suffers from recent grief due to the [...]
Reminiscence
Lisa Joy, co-creator of the critically acclaimed sci-fi television series Westworld, debuts her first feature film Reminiscence. Keeping to her roots of sci-fi neo-noir themes, we follow our protagonist Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) in the [...]
Don’t Breathe 2
A late-summer surprise hit, Fede Alvarez's Don't Breathe was a breath of fresh air when it was released at the tail end of summer 2016. The tight craft, maximum usage of its setting and high-concept, [...]
Jungle Cruise
Adaptations of classic Disney park rides have had a hit-or-miss reputation with one becoming one of the pinnacle blockbusters franchises of the 00's with Pirates of the Caribbean and less successful ones such as The [...]
