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Brick
Directed by
Rian Johnson
R
2006
1h 50m
Drama
,
Mystery
,
and more
7.1
80%
86%
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A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
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Cast of Brick
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Brendan
Emilie de Ravin
Emily
Nora Zehetner
Laura
Lukas Haas
The Pin
Noah Fleiss
Tugger
Matt O'Leary
The Brain
Noah Segan
Dode
Meagan Good
Kara
Brian J. White
Brad Bramish
Richard Roundtree
Assistant V.P. Trueman
Jonathan Cauff
Biff
Reedy Gibbs
Pin's Mom
Lucas Babin
Big Stoner
Ari Welkom
Tangles
Tracy Bitterolf
Straggler
Cody Lightning
The Lug
McJoel Hamilton
The Pin's Driver (uncredited)
Lauren Johnson
Woman Sweeping Backstage (uncredited)
Dylan Lujano
Student (uncredited)
Rian Johnson
Director / Writer
Ram Bergman
Producer
Mark G. Mathis
Producer
Brick Ratings & Reviews
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
While Brick is chock-full of the characters, language and imagery of classic noir, it is in fact set among contemporary teenagers. It's a gimmick, but it's a damn fine gimmick.
Slate
Troy Patterson
Like the best noirs, Brick is a triumph of attitude, and there's no arguing that its brand of deadpan cool is precisely unique.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
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.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Although it's not The Big Sleep, Brick is hardly a snooze.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Alas, Brick, from writer-director Rian Johnson, isn't as clever as its conceit.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Brick is smart -- perhaps too smart for its own good at times. But in the end, its affectations add up to entertainment.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
Although Brick can be a bit thick, you have to admire the effort.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Never really offers an adequate justification for its central genre-transplant conceit.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
There's no denying that Brick is weirdly expressive, often when it seems most artificial. What begins as the most gimmicky sort of genre retread somehow evolves into that most elusive of films: a personal statement.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Brick drops down like a frenzied teen fever dream of criminal patter and hairpin plot turns. A word to the wise: Pay attention, or you'll feel a lot less wise.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Brick is a first feature for Johnson, and while it's not an unqualified success, it definitely marks him as a young filmmaker to watch.
San Francisco Chronicle
Neva Chonin
Johnson isn't the first director to subvert suburbia, but he's probably the first to have done such a fine job of it on his first outing.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Yet in being so unlike the typical high school flick, it captures anew the alienation, the ridiculously earnest intensity of feeling, the insularity of experience that are part and parcel of those blunder years.
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
The mystery feels elementary and his characters, though compelling as sketches, remain one-dimensional from the first to the last good-looking frame.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Brick is almost fiendish in its insistence on finding modern-day parallels to classic pulp-fiction figures.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Even as you struggle to keep up with its speedy chatter and multi-character complexity, Brick is always entertaining.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Brick would be better with a bit more Lynch in its soul, but Johnson is his own man, and I look forward to what he comes up with next.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This movie leaves me looking forward to the director's next film; we can say of Rian Johnson, as somebody once said about a dame named Brigid O'Shaughnessy, 'You're good. You're very good.'
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
What sounds like a stunt, or a genre-mashup oddity like Bugsy Malone, proves to be a sharp, tongue-in-cheek exercise, balancing deadpan menace with well-timed comedy.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Johnson also grabs hold of a fundamental truth and seduces us with it: The schoolyard can be the noirest burg of all.
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