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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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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “It boasts lofty ambitions for a zany, mind-bending comedy, and it’s all the more noble and satisfying for the inspired result. ” – Deep Focus Review Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 63% 2.5/4 EDIT “For those who like a good death scene, this movie has several of them, making it worthwhile for those moments but not altogether satisfying as a whole. Whistle isn’t a great horror movie, but there’s enough here to admire for those curious.  ” – Deep Focus Review Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 63% 1/4 EDIT “Besson makes one baffling choice after another in his blatantly derivative yet quirky English-language production, which might as well be called Luc Besson’s Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” – Deep Focus Review Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Shelter (2026) 62% 2/4 EDIT “Shelter isn’t aggressively bad. But it’s not very good, either. The whole thing’s temperature lingers well below the boiling point, never quite bubbling or even getting heated enough to generate interest. ” – Deep Focus Review Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 4/4 EDIT “Anchored by committed performances from Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien, along with a blend of social commentary and spookhouse jolts courtesy of Raimi, Send Help is the most fun moviegoing experience I’ve had in recent memory. ” – Deep Focus Review Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Magellan (2025) 86% 3.5/4 EDIT “It’s a formally inspired piece of work that evokes more admiration than passion, but its vision is commendably uncompromising.” – Deep Focus Review Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% 1/4 EDIT “It’s set on delivering a real-time murder mystery in less than 100 minutes, with only a fleeting curiosity about the moral and societal implications of the world it depicts.” – Deep Focus Review Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Return to Silent Hill (2026) 17% 0.5/4 EDIT “I found the experience difficult to sit through and nonsensical from moment to moment, with its confounding story and shoddy CGI matched only by its lack of entertainment value.” – Deep Focus Review Jan 21, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 2/4 EDIT “The Rip’s skilled ensemble and the promise of tense gunplay may be enough for some, but the unremarkable result leaves no lasting impression.” – Deep Focus Review Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 4/4 EDIT “A triumph of rich thematic storytelling and social reflection that beckons its audience to search for answers and solutions rather than act on the lizard-brained instincts and emotions that fuel humanity’s worst impulses.” – Deep Focus Review Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Battle of Algiers (1966) 99% 4/4 EDIT “With irresistible style and narrative efficiency, The Battle of Algiers mourns the conditions of colonialism, capturing the moral complexity and human toll of an imperialistic relationship between the colonizer and colonized. ” – Deep Focus Review Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Night Patrol (2025) 59% 3/4 EDIT “With humor and gore to spare, it’s a bloody good time that, like many exploitation movies, sneaks in a commentary on the back of its genres. ” – Deep Focus Review Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 3/4 EDIT “Primate may have benefited from another draft of the screenplay to give the material some substance and the characters some depth, but, regardless, Roberts achieves a blood-curdling, efficient B-movie. It’s simple, straightforward, and effective. ” – Deep Focus Review Jan 10, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 51% 2.5/4 EDIT “The follow-up feels a little less novel, but that’s usually the case with Hollywood sequels. Maybe this review has damned the sequel with faint praise, but I maintain that it’s an easy recommendation for a matinee or a casual late-night watch.” – Deep Focus Review Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% 4/4 EDIT “A cherishable, perceptive work of art. ” – Deep Focus Review Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 1.5/4 EDIT “Dead Man’s Wire has only a surface-level interest in its characters and proves ham-fisted in its unmistakable, if meritorious commentary.” – Deep Focus Review Jan 5, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 87% 3/4 EDIT “What’s most affecting is Hilditch’s exploration of how death seldom allows us to achieve any real closure with loved ones who have passed, and that’s what grief is.” – Deep Focus Review Dec 29, 2025 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “There’s no need for a mysterious disease, extreme violence,  or supernatural forces for the director to make his point. It’s a nerve-racking experience because we’ve all faced the kind of social pressures and torment on display here.” – Deep Focus Review Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “The music helps maintain the 132-minute feature’s tempo. But throughout Song Sung Blue, I never bought into Brewer’s production, which [...] feels like it belongs on the small screen.” – Deep Focus Review Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3/4 EDIT “Those who purchase tickets will surely feel it was money well spent. However, my hope is that Cameron imbues the next visit to Pandora with different stakes that don’t feel like another retread, only bigger.” – Deep Focus Review Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 23% 1.5/4 EDIT “A confounding and messy disappointment from a filmmaker who has turned out much better movies.” – Deep Focus Review Dec 15, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 3/4 EDIT “While a well-executed shoot-em-up, armed with a bevy of uneven jokes and several wowing set pieces, there’s not much more to the experience than some diverting fun. ” – Deep Focus Review Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 3/4 EDIT “Silent Night, Deadly Night manages to be thrilling, scary, and a little goofy. It’s sure to become a rewatched Christmastime classic for horror-obsessed households.” – Deep Focus Review Dec 8, 2025 Full Review 100 Nights of Hero (2025) 68% 2/4 EDIT “[The film] has all the elements to make a delightfully nonconformist indie catered to a Gen Z audience. It’s an amusingly ironic and lushly aestheticized deconstruction of folklore, except that few of the emotional beats stick in any meaningful way.” – Deep Focus Review Dec 5, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “Though Park set out to make his masterpiece, I wouldn’t rank No Other Choice among his very best; however, it’s a skillfully made, thoroughly entertaining screwball thriller with searing relevance. ” – Deep Focus Review Dec 2, 2025 Full Review
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