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Brick
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
17 February 1947, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
27 December 1981, Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia
16 April 1984, White Plains, New York, USA
8 August 1986, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
16 July 1982, Miami, Florida, USA
30 July 1979, Beaumont, Texas, USA
8 August 1981, Panorama City, California, USA
9 July 1942, New Rochelle, New York, USA
5 February 1981, El Paso, Texas, USA
21 April 1975, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
April 29, 2009
Mostly lives up to the hype.
April 20, 2006
Although Brick can be a bit thick, you have to admire the effort.
May 05, 2006
Alas, Brick, from writer-director Rian Johnson, isn't as clever as its conceit.
June 03, 2009
That rarest of things: a movie called 'unique' that actually is.
September 25, 2010
Noir fits "Brick" like a glove, stylishly injecting assured tough talk, vice-grip tension, black humor, striking sound design and gunshots sounding like locker doors slammed on options. A great detective story and, for some, a high-school flashback.
March 22, 2013
Smart, stylized teen whodunit with violence and drugs.
May 12, 2006
Like the best noirs, Brick is a triumph of attitude, and there's no arguing that its brand of deadpan cool is precisely unique.
August 30, 2009
The movie's rigorous dark-lined elegance leaves a punchy aftertaste
May 12, 2006
It's great to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Mysterious Skin) in the juicy role of a high-school gumshoe on the trail of his estranged girlfriend's killers.
April 28, 2006
Brick is smart -- perhaps too smart for its own good at times. But in the end, its affectations add up to entertainment.
June 24, 2006
The self-consciously mannered rat-a-tat-tat dialogue also mines a neat overlap between teen slang and noir patois, both of which can be indecipherable to non-initiates.
October 24, 2015
...it's impossible not to wish that the first-time filmmaker hadn't leaned quite so heavily on the antiquated shenanigans.