"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
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