(9) Brick

Directed by Rian Johnson
Rated PG-13
2005
109 minutes

*****

Very close to making into my desert island, all-time top 10, Brick is one of the most wildly imaginative, original, engaging films to come out in the past twenty years. A film noir set in a modern day high school is an idea that could've gone terribly wrong, but fortunately, it went so, so right.