Overview

• Directed by Philip Koch and led by Matthias Schweighöfer and Ruby O. Fee, the German sci-fi thriller began streaming globally on Netflix on July 10, 2025.
• The plot traps apartment residents behind a mysterious brick barrier that transforms their building into a high-stakes escape-room scenario.
• Critics praise the film’s premise and lead performances but describe its puzzle narrative as overly familiar and its digital brick-wall effects as unconvincing.
• In Kulture magazine interviews, Schweighöfer and Fee emphasize the wall’s metaphor for self-built safety nets and the risks of psychological confinement.
• Brick follows in the footsteps of puzzle-box classics like Cube and underscores Netflix’s push into international genre originals.