Big Gold Brick”may be a film absent even the faintest trace of purpose or momentum -- its endless parade of energy-less moments connected only by the lack of life shared between them.

| Original Score: D | Feb 28, 2022

Big Gold Brick may be a bit too enamored with its own quirkiness, but everything Garcia does, no matter how outlandish, feels perfectly natural.

| Feb 28, 2022

Unlike many other film enthusiasts turned filmmakers, Petsos hasnt figured out anything useful to do with his influences.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 25, 2022

Despite piling on character details and plot developments, “Big Gold Brick” is beset by torpor, in large part because every new incident is untethered to the ones that preceded and follow it.

| Feb 25, 2022

The title of this perfectly well-appointed production is apt: “Big Gold Brick” looks all right but it truly just sits there.

| Feb 24, 2022

The effect is full disorientation, which feels refreshingly campy now and then, but bewilderingly out of touch the rest of the time.

| Feb 23, 2022

Brian Pestos’s flair for go-for-broke zaniness transmutes what might otherwise have been a lump of self-indulgent clichés into gold.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2022