Brick

Year: 2005

Why'd I Watch It?: JGL, and because Elizabeth told me to.

What's It About?: A high school kid trying to solve the murder of his ex-girlfriend.

What'd I Think?: Using noir dialogue and older styles of framing shots here and there in an otherwise totally modern movie proved to be an effective concept. Overall it made an otherwise potentially conventional sort of plot pretty engaging. Also, the cast did a bang up job of delivering the dialogue in the fast paced, inflection sensitive way it needed to be in order to achieve the desired effect.

Rating: 4 1/2 waffles