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Brick (2006)
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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.
Theatrical Release: Mar 31, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $1,973,180
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.... [More]
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Nora Zehetner, Noah Fleiss
Director: Rian Johnson
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Top Critic The genre itself is one of my favourites, but I am uninvolved and unmoved by Brick; it's like a teenager dressed in dad's overcoat.
08/05/06
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10/18/08
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
A refreshing private-eye thriller in a style now widely identified as neo-noi.
01/20/07
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
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
Top Critic Brick is just an elaborate noir send-up, and an enjoyably kooky one at that
08/20/06
Un thriller élaboré avec une vigueur et un savoir faire indéniable dont on doute par contre de la crédibilité à quelques reprises
08/18/06
Johnson has mixed together 1940s-style slang and his own jargon to create a lively, imaginative script that keeps the viewer guessing. Hammett would certainly have been pleased...
07/27/06
It's a fun, involving concept, but it tends to weaken the more you think about it.
07/20/06
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April 20, 2006:
Interview With "Brick" Director Rian Johnson
A film noir set at a contemporary high school, "Brick" is a strange, tough little movie, a throwback to the days of Sam Spade that utilizes its young actors to... More...
March 06, 2006:
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Rian Johnson won last year's Sundance Jury Prize for Originality of Vision with "Brick," his teenage film noir starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- and we've got the first... More...
February 15, 2006:
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