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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.
8 August 1981, Panorama City, California, USA
5 February 1981, El Paso, Texas, USA
27 December 1981, Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia
8 August 1986, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
21 April 1975, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
5 October 1983, New York City, New York, USA
17 February 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 April 1976, West Hollywood, California, USA
9 July 1942, New Rochelle, New York, USA
17 February 1947, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
6 July 1987, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 July 1982, Miami, Florida, USA
16 April 1984, White Plains, New York, USA
30 July 1979, Beaumont, Texas, USA
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.
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.
April 20, 2006
Although Brick can be a bit thick, you have to admire the effort.
August 30, 2009
The movie's rigorous dark-lined elegance leaves a punchy aftertaste
October 24, 2015
...it's impossible not to wish that the first-time filmmaker hadn't leaned quite so heavily on the antiquated shenanigans.
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.
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.
March 22, 2013
Smart, stylized teen whodunit with violence and drugs.
April 29, 2009
Mostly lives up to the hype.
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 03, 2009
That rarest of things: a movie called 'unique' that actually is.
May 05, 2006
Alas, Brick, from writer-director Rian Johnson, isn't as clever as its conceit.
