| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray |
"A neo-noir as cool as it is comic." more... |
B+ |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...a film to warm the hearts of old-movie junkies and indie kids alike." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"The story is never clear while it unfolds, but it provides a rich source of dialogue, behavior and incidents." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt |
"...challenging to follow, at best." more... |
C |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...clever and confident..." more... |
B+ |
filmcritic.com
Christopher Null |
"Brick, as best as you can describe it, is a postmodern mashup of a '90s teen drug drama and a '30s noir." more... |
B |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...a hardboiled treat." more... |
B |
New York Times
Stephen Holden |
"It's all so seamy, sordid, lurid and shocking! And dull, despite a noirish gloss of wide-angle cinematography and a jaundiced, smoggy color scheme." more... |
C- |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"'Sensational' is the word for Joseph Gordon-Levitt..." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Neva Chonin |
"...manages to be both over the top and understated, filled with mannered camerawork and dialogue delivered sans irony by an impressive young cast." more... |
B+ |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker |
"... the concept is clever and Johnson's brisk editing, dynamic camerawork and snazzy transitions has fun with it all." more... |
B |
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