CrimeDramaMystery

Brick

2006
7.1 / 10
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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Brick tries something different, it is essentially film noir in a high school setting. Speaking of high school, the characters have all the time in the world to spend it in everything besides highschool, we never see them in the classroom. They don't speak lik...
The geography of film noir is usually a neighborhood, a city, a region ... BRICK transposes this geography onto a high school with surprisingly successful results. Watching it brought to mind not only the black & white films of the 40s and 50s, but glimmers of...
Saw this at the Mill Valley Film Festival. It's essentially a film noir set in present-day San Clemente High School, reminiscent of "The Big Sleep," but with drug-dealing added to the mix of double-crossing. The characters may be teenagers, but the dialog chan...
An instant classic. At once, it demands respect for its efforts. Creating an original film amidst the money-press-like formulaic cookie-cutters is reminiscent an act of rebellion against "the man", and this film has done a beautiful job of sticking it to 'em....
'Brick' is a film noir murder mystery featuring contemporary high school students who talk and behave like 1940's-style gangsters. I hastily bought a ticket to 'Brick' at the Sundance Film Festival, knowing nothing about it but what was written in the Sundanc...
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