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"Brick, a cinematic mash-up of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett detective stories with a contemporary
high school drama, seems like a stylistic stunt, but writer-director Rian Johnson’s film works quite well. This isn’t
an exercise in playing dress-up. The characters inhabit a place where disappointment and pain lurk around every corner, something
all too familiar to teenagers. 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."- Mark Pfeiffer
1. Brick [Rian Johnson] (24 points/5 votes)
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