When The Independent reviewed this film and said there was nothing else that could have been added to make it better, I was sceptical and then intrigued. This is a whodunnit caper in the style of a hardboiled Bogart noir. Except it’s set in a high school in America. This isn’t The Breakfast Club or Grease though, it’s an alienating and alienated landscape where the Vice Principle acts like a Police Chief and students inhabit the Underneath and hold some very dark secrets…

Everyone in ‘Brick’ is heartless, cynical and out for their own ends, even the “hero”. The best aspect of the film is that you have to pay attention in order to enjoy it: you have to make sense of the highly stylised language, the rapidly changing inter-relationships of the characters, and the rather murky world they inhabit.

You want an intelligent, engaging film that challenges you to view it? You want an enjoyable couple of hours that’ll disorientate and entertain you? Go see it.