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User Score  Generally favorable reviews- based on 126 Ratings
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• Summary: Brick, while taking its cues and its verbal style
from the novels of Dashiell Hammett, also honors the rich
cinematic tradition of the hard-boiled noir mystery, here
wittily and bracingly immersed in fresh territory – a modern-day
Southern California neighborhood and high school. (Focus
Features) Score distribution:   1. Positive: 30 out of 34   2.
Negative: 0 out of 34   1. 91     A Big Sleep with underage
bozos, a Maltese Falcon where the stuff that dreams are made of
rests in the lockers of a well-worn high school, Brick is a
remarkable oddity, audacious and engaging.   2. Johnson also
grabs hold of a fundamental truth and seduces us with it: The
schoolyard can be the noirest burg of all.   3. 80     Brick
doesn't work 100 percent of the time