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