All Bricked Up

Yesterday, on The Rap Sheet, my brief review of Brick, Rian Johnson’s celebrated debut:.

If Raymond Chandler and Stanley Kubrick had met in high school and decided to make a movie together, Brick is the film they would have crafted. Kubrick for scenes that are distantly beautiful and carefully choreographed, Chandler for dialogue you would have thought it was impossible to duplicate, even in spirit.

I liked it. And the review is here.