Adrien Brody plays an architect with grand visions. We need that ambition.

The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II. It’s about the immigrant experience, and it’s about what happens when the American Dream beckons,

Adrien Brody stars in Brady Corbet’s epic drama about a brilliant architect from Budapest hired by a dangerous capitalist played by Guy Pearce

For the last decade or so, it has sometimes seemed as if Hollywood has lost its grandest ambition—not merely to entertain, provoke, or create art, but to pursue and portray America's national myths, to reflect the nation back on itself in new and revelatory ways.

Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce star in Brady Corbet’s ambitious post-World War II saga.

The Brutalist” is many things: some blunt, others loose and dangling, still others richly provocative, most of them remarkable. Among the 2024 movie releases worth arguments and accolades, director and co-writer Brady Corbet’s third feature has the most evident problems — subplots and supporting characters left hanging,

At 215 minutes, writer-director Brady Corbet swings for the fences with his "monumental" film about an architect who has fled the Holocaust for America. "It's about tortured geniuses and the vile money men who exploit and defile them,