Brick

BRICK (2005) - April 19, 2006
A high school detective movie, featuring the same type of hard-boiled dialogue that Sin City tried (and failed) to emulate. While Sin City's dialogue seemed like overblown parody that got tiresome pretty fast, here it really works. It helps that all the performances were really good; Joseph Gordon-Levitt in particular was exceptional in the main role. This was basically just a really good detective movie that just happened to be set in and around a high school. ***1/2