Brick (2025) poster
2025 · thriller · sci-fi

Brick

Directed by Philip Koch1h 39m2025
ElsewhereIMDb5.521kRT44%Metacritic53
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • cold
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

How every film is hand-scored →

When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.

Our read · Brick (2025) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Where the cast leads
Where to watch
Not on streaming here right now.Check JustWatch Check Letterboxd
More info & search links
Fingerprint

The shape of Brick

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

You want a claustrophobic German puzzle-box thriller when walls close in overnight.

ends ambiguousit stays with yougrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencejump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if predictable trapped-building mysteries and muddled reveals frustrate you.

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
Nearest by DNA

Eight films that read most like this one.

Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”

Your take
Rate it
star-clip-1-0star-clip-2-0star-clip-3-0star-clip-4-0star-clip-5-0
React
Discussion

Discussion

cmd enter to post

What does your Movie DNA look like?

Rate a few films you've seen. We map your taste across the same twelve axes and find the films you'll actually want to watch tonight.

Calibrate yourself