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Brian Eggert

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Biography:

Brian Eggert is the owner and film critic of Deep Focus Review, where he has written movie reviews, in-depth essays, and critical analyses since 2007. Brian also regularly appears on KARE 11, the NBC affiliate for the Twin Cities, to review and discuss movies. He belongs to the Society For Cinema and Media Studies, Minnesota Film Critics Alliance, Online Film & Television Association, International Film Society Critics, Independent Film Critics of America, The Critics Circle, and National Coalition of Independent Scholars.

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Animal Farm (2025) 26% 2/4 EDIT “It’s a well-intentioned production that arrives on screens with a lot of baggage and a tedious pop-entertainment aesthetic.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 85% 3.5/4 EDIT “A patient, moody film that’s both frightening and affecting. ” – Deep Focus Review Apr 26, 2026 Full Review Once (2007) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “One of the most satisfying movies I’ve seen all year.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 25, 2026 Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 71% 2/4 EDIT “Hathaway and Coel breathe life into their scenes, enough so that watching their choices as actors is more compelling than the material they perform.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 22, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 38% 1/4 EDIT “As a movie that’s supposed to help us understand the King of Pop, it’s blindly worshipful and woefully inadequate and, by extension, underlines just how bizarre and fraught "the Michael Jackson story" remains. ” – Deep Focus Review Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Red Sorghum (1988) 86% 4/4 EDIT “A film of remarkable imagery and emotion, but also a critique of the repressive forces that would ration personal freedoms and inhibit artistic expression. ” – Deep Focus Review Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Late Fame (2026) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “Late Fame is about having the energy to put in the artistic work and recognizing that great art comes from having something to say [...] However, recognizing the difference between inspired art and manufactured content is increasingly rare these days.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 18, 2026 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film is incredibly moving and predictably aching in its multi-layered portraits, brimming with the Dardennes’ profound empathy.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 18, 2026 Full Review The Last Viking (2025) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Mikkelsen and Kaas give strong performances in a film that’s a bit too sentimental by the end, but manages to be quite odd and pleasant for most of the two-hour runtime.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 18, 2026 Full Review Silent Friend (2025) 100% 4/4 EDIT “Silent Friend is a sublime experience, composed of incredibly beautiful imagery and thought-provoking ideas that will linger long after its two-and-a-half-hour runtime. Most films tell a story. Enyedi presents a new way of looking at the world.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 15, 2026 Full Review Living the Land (2025) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Its leisurely pacing and more-than-two-hour runtime may make the film a challenge for some, but it recalls the visually stunning, meditative atmosphere of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1979).” – Deep Focus Review Apr 15, 2026 Full Review The Travel Companion (2025) 90% 3/4 EDIT “It’s a well-made, relatable story about a filmmaker who learns he must stop waiting on standby to find artistic inspiration.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 15, 2026 Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film examines how fascist systems thrive on control and fear, weeding out anyone who dares to ask questions or seek justice that doesn’t align with the Party.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 15, 2026 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 97% 4/4 EDIT “The Christophers isn’t so easy to summarize. It contains some familiar thematic elements for Soderbergh; however, it’s new territory stylistically and thematically, in a way that feels essential to his perspective as an artist.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (2026) 94% 4/4 EDIT “If you haven’t followed [Bamford's] work, Paralyzed by Hope is an excellent introduction for those unfamiliar. And if you have, it’s no less engaging, funny, and heartfelt. ” – Deep Focus Review Apr 13, 2026 Full Review Normal (2025) 75% 3/4 EDIT “Even if the setup feels like Nobody 3, it’s nonetheless carried out with skill, charm, and thrills that distinguish it. ” – Deep Focus Review Apr 11, 2026 Full Review Mārama (2025) 100% 2.5/4 EDIT “A stirring tale about cultural appropriation and, eventually, social justice through revenge.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Eagles of the Republic (2025) 76% 3/4 EDIT “While the film never quite reaches the heights of the paranoid political thrillers of the 1960s and 1970s, Saleh leaves plenty of room for the viewer to question how films are shaped by ideology.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Erupcja (2025) 86% 3/4 EDIT “With its Warsaw setting, French New Wave-inspired aesthetic, and techno-pulse reminiscent of a Danny Boyle film, Erupcja (Eruption) plays like a modern arthouse pastiche from Eastern Europe.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “Romvari gets at the way our limited experiences as children often disguise the reality of our pasts, only for us to realize years later, in an incomplete picture, what really happened.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 9, 2026 Full Review You, Me & Tuscany (2026) 65% 3/4 EDIT “It presents the cinematic equivalent of pasta alla ruota—a massive parmesan wheel on which hot pasta is tossed for a delectably cheesy dish. The ingredients are simple, ordinary even, but their preparation is a delicious novelty. ” – Deep Focus Review Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “The movie could easily be called one of the most faithful game adaptations ever, if only because the game offers a slight story beyond its puzzle-box structure. The movie adds little to its setup and will appeal most to the game’s die-hard enthusiasts.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 8, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 67% 3/4 EDIT “Here’s a horror movie that could have appealed to the lowest common denominator; instead, it resolved to have a point of view. ” – Deep Focus Review Apr 7, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 77% 3.5/4 EDIT “Zendaya and Pattinson give such nuanced and riotous performances, each teeming with anxiety and terror over their exposure, that I found it impossible not to enjoy even its edgiest and most mortifying scenes.” – Deep Focus Review Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Alpha (2025) 57% 3.5/4 EDIT “It shows us Ducournau is interested in more than sensationalism. And much like Raw and Titane, Alpha is a film of profound empathy.” – Deep Focus Review Mar 25, 2026 Full Review
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