If you loved Knives Out, try Brick
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Brick has roughly 10.2× fewer votes than Knives Out — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Rian Johnson, and they both carry the cerebral mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to Knives Out, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Brick is
October rain drums metal lockers. A dead cellphone rattles inside a locker. A teen traces the phone’s last ping to a drug runner’s locker, then steps past the hallway’s fluorescent glare into the school’s shadowed underbelly.
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