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Brick

2006, Movie, 1h 50min

After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.

Country: United States

Director:

Rian Johnson

Cast:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt,

Richard Roundtree,

Lukas Haas,

Meagan Good

Reviews

Critic Damon Wise

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...Brick understands the beauty of an honest mystery, elegantly mounting a series of clues — with twists and red herrings along the way — before weaving it all together for a mind-reeling climax.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Scott Tobias

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...visually arresting, packed with geeky allusions to everything from Raymond Chandler to Blue Velvet.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Roger Ebert

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The story is never clear while it unfolds, but it provides a rich source of dialogue, behavior and incidents.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Kasper Løvborg

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Absolutely brilliantly realized transportation of the hard-boiled genre and inherent noir themes to a high school setting. The tightness of its meticulous narrative impressed me in a way not unlike that in 'Primer', another superior, ind...

4 years ago

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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Writer-director Johnson provides an original way to look at the world of high school with its bewitching young girls passing for femmes fatales and its lunkhead teen bullies filling in for professional mob muscle.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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Brick (2006) is a gripping mystery drama that follows the story of a high school student, Brendan Frye, who embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the truth behind his ex-girlfriend's murder. After receiving a cryptic phone call from Emily, begging for help, Brendan discovers her dead body and sets out to find the killer, infiltrating the school's criminal underworld and confronting dangerous characters along the way. As he delves deeper into the mystery, Brendan uncovers a web of secrets and lies that threaten to destroy him. With a complex plot full of twists and turns, Brick keeps viewers on the edge of their seats until the very end.

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