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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Brick is a first feature for Johnson, and while it's not an unqualified success, it definitely marks him as a young filmmaker to watch. Read more
Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: The mystery feels elementary and his characters, though compelling as sketches, remain one-dimensional from the first to the last good-looking frame. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's great to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Mysterious Skin) in the juicy role of a high-school gumshoe on the trail of his estranged girlfriend's killers. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The unspeakable dialogue is so incomprehensible it seems like a whole new language. Read more
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Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: What sounds like a stunt, or a genre-mashup oddity like Bugsy Malone, proves to be a sharp, tongue-in-cheek exercise, balancing deadpan menace with well-timed comedy. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: "...packed with geeky allusions to everything from Raymond Chandler to Blue Velvet" Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Although Brick can be a bit thick, you have to admire the effort. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Brick is almost fiendish in its insistence on finding modern-day parallels to classic pulp-fiction figures. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Brick is as difficult to categorize as its hard-boiled, made-up lingo is hard to understand -- neither of which should deter anyone from seeing it. It's rare to see a debut as witty and assured as this. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: There's no denying that Brick is weirdly expressive, often when it seems most artificial. What begins as the most gimmicky sort of genre retread somehow evolves into that most elusive of films: a personal statement. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Brick would be better with a bit more Lynch in its soul, but Johnson is his own man, and I look forward to what he comes up with next. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Yet in being so unlike the typical high school flick, it captures anew the alienation, the ridiculously earnest intensity of feeling, the insularity of experience that are part and parcel of those blunder years. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Brick is smart -- perhaps too smart for its own good at times. But in the end, its affectations add up to entertainment. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Johnson also grabs hold of a fundamental truth and seduces us with it: The schoolyard can be the noirest burg of all. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Brick drops down like a frenzied teen fever dream of criminal patter and hairpin plot turns. A word to the wise: Pay attention, or you'll feel a lot less wise. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: If John Hughes had directed The Maltese Falcon instead of John Huston, it might have looked an awful lot like this. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Brick's low-key, post-modern approach (indie-film euphemism for on-the-cheap) mingles '40s and '50s costume accents with the institutional drab of a suburban high school. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: You can't deny the fellow who made it has talent. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: It's an A+ film school exercise with zero emotional or social impact. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: It's Gordon-Levitt's pitch-perfect work that makes Brick a hardboiled treat. Read more
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This movie leaves me looking forward to the director's next film; we can say of Rian Johnson, as somebody once said about a dame named Brigid O'Shaughnessy, 'You're good. You're very good.' Read more
Neva Chonin, San Francisco Chronicle: Johnson isn't the first director to subvert suburbia, but he's probably the first to have done such a fine job of it on his first outing. Read more
Troy Patterson, Slate: Like the best noirs, Brick is a triumph of attitude, and there's no arguing that its brand of deadpan cool is precisely unique. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It has insolent wit, a taut style and strong characterizations. But it lacks the special quality needed to make a movie spring to life, a divine spark of real imagination. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: It's a clever gimmick, cleverly wrought, offering further evidence that you can dress up the student body in all manner of garb for all types of genres. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: It is possible to leave Brick without fully appreciating how all the pieces fit together, but still satisfied by a well-crafted tale undertaken by a director who pays homage to a film tradition in a truly original way. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: The self-consciously mannered rat-a-tat-tat dialogue also mines a neat overlap between teen slang and noir patois, both of which can be indecipherable to non-initiates. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: The picture gains in finesse and confidence to the point where Johnson more or less pulls off his peril-fraught exercise. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Brick represents an impossible dream, though: the reuse -- with conviction -- of cinema's most calloused and beloved genre as applied to contemporary middle-class life. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Even as you struggle to keep up with its speedy chatter and multi-character complexity, Brick is always entertaining. Read more