A refreshing private-eye thriller in a style now widely identified as neo-noi.
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Brick (2006)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 125 Fresh: 98 Rotten:27 Average Rating: 7/10
Consensus:
This entertaining homage to noirs past has been slickly and compellingly updated to a contemporary high school setting.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Theatrical Release: 12-05-2006
Synopsis: A detective story set around a contemporary California high school, BRICK dares to combine the teen and film noir genres. In mixing these two disparate worlds, Director Rian Johnson creates many comically jarring and ironic moments. When loner Brendan Frye (a barely recognizable Joseph... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Nora Zehetner, Noah Fleiss, Noah Segan
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The teens in Rian Johnson's striking debut feature Brick express themselves in jargon that sounds as if lifted straight from the pages of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
09/28/06
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.
06/24/06
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After discovering his girlfriend has been murdered, a high school geek attempts to unravel the mystery in what may be the best teen movie you've ever seen.
06/03/06
This year's Donnie Darko? Brick is in a class of its own, showing neither a hint of pretension nor convolution.
05/20/06
Even with its shortcomings, Brick provides solid thrills for film noir fans.
05/16/06
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A smart, original neo-noir that works as an ingenious mindgame as well as a slick Hollywood calling card.
05/12/06
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A fascinating experiment that doesn't always work but is definitely worth seeing.
05/12/06
First-time filmmaker Johnson intriguingly combines film noir with the American teen drama to create something truly engaging. Besides being almost pathologically gripping, it also redefines both genres in the process.
05/04/06
Brick is a black-comic ballet through the peculiar terrors of suburban adolescence...
02/28/08
Whatever it is, wherever it is, whenever it is, it's not remotely like anything else out there.
08/11/07
Brick exemplifies the difference between a cinematic talent show and mere karaoke.
07/03/07
the school's cliques, cants and "class" politics are shown to be as amoral and impenetrable as any criminal netherworld dreamt up by Raymond Chandler.
07/02/07
An innovative ride that carries the viewer into a world familiar from genre films and the novels of Dashiell Hammett, yet quite unlike anything we've seen before.
03/01/07
I can’t really recommend it to anyone, unless it’s one of those lazy video nights and you’re in the mood to experiment.
01/12/07
Exercício de estilo corajoso e eficiente, o filme busca (com sucesso) ambientar sua trama noir em um colégio norte-americano, criando um "detetive" adolescente saído diretamente da forma que gerou Philip Marlowe e Sam Spade.
12/29/06
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