Directed and co-written by Brady Corbet with Mona Fastvold, the film, just honored with three Golden Globes (including best drama) and opening in limited release on Friday, rehearses the old struggle of genius against mediocrity and philistinism.

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

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,

Corbet is still in his 30s, and if The Brutalist is any indication, he has the sort of cinematic vitality that Coppola's self-financed flub demanded. Yes, unlike Coppola's sci-fi scenario, Corbet's film is a look back at America's post-war period,

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,