Brick

...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.

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

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

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.