#19 Brick by Rian Johnson

Maybe I am blinded by its sheer amount of vision, but to me Brick is an amalgamation of all things great about the noir genre updated to a contemporary setting and right on rhythm with its inspirations. This film helped set Joseph Gordon-Levitt into the light of serious acting post 3rd Rock from the Sun days, and boy is he great. The twists and turns will boggle you and then intrigue you until you can't tell left from right, and then when the end hits you want to watch it all over again with what you know now.