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(1 - 31) of 31 OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh Page   1   "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."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel C- "Meant to put a distinctive stamp on the film, the dialog grows increasingly tedious and manufactured, especially when the locations don't match the same sense of fantasy."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 3.5/5 "a postmodern mashup of a '90s teen drug drama and a '30s noir"   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null "While this plot is heartbreaking and high school movie generic, the execution is lively and deft."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs C "Suburban kitsch gets played fast and loose."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Akin to David Lynch on an off day."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2/4 "The director has built a nifty-looking little contraption with a hollow center, with fingernails clean of grime."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B "Noir-ish dialogue in a high school is inherently funny -- not always in the laugh-out-loud sense, but consistently in the this-dialogue-is- interesting-to- listen-to sense."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 "Writer/Director Rian Johnson goes back to the old days when characters were rocks, dialogue was king and the plot demanded you pay attention to every last bit."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress A "So fantastic it's scary."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C+ "Enjoyable but thin, an exercise in style in which the appearance almost compensates for the lack of substance--but not quite."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/4 "Brick is just an elaborate noir send-up, and an enjoyably kooky one at that"   Perihelion Journal   Jay Antani 3/4 "A richly textured and abstract teen thriller."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 7/10 "Wisely conscious of its own inherent absurdity in combining afterschool intrigue with a hard-boiled atmosphere."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 5/10 "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."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 4/5 "This year's Donnie Darko? Brick is in a class of its own, showing neither a hint of pretension nor convolution."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 3/4 "The relationships are unclear, the motives less so, but the idea has potential. Tries a little too hard to be hard-boiled, sacrificing development."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 1.5/5 "Brick will make you dread high school all over again."   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner A- "Johnson takes the regular travails of high school life - romances, cliques and clashes, teenage pregnancy and drugs - and applies the stylings of Dashiell Hammett for a schoolyard film noir that never plays as gimmicky as it might sound."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3.5/4 "The ghost of Dashiell Hammett haunts the corridors of a nondescript suburban high school in this odd but engagingly off-kilter thriller."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh A- "Johnson's sources of inspiration for Brick put forth tough dicks and dames in a cold, uncaring universe. Glum teens are a clever and natural evolution for the genre."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer C+ "Never really offers an adequate justification for its central genre-transplant conceit."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 5/5 "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."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4/5 "First-time filmmaker Johnson intriguingly combines film noir with the American teen drama to create something truly engaging. Besides being almost pathologically gripping, it also redefines both genres in the process."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "Whatever it is, wherever it is, whenever it is, it's not remotely like anything else out there."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C+ "Brick exemplifies the difference between a cinematic talent show and mere karaoke."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick B "A good whodunit with some references to films made in the 1940s."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B+ "First time writer/director Rian Johnson makes a striking debut with his modern mystery that pays more than just homage to the works of Dashiell Hammet"   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B "... an inspired time-warped teenage film noir."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2.5/4 "Cult classic-in-the-making."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 31) of 31 OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh Page   1