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

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

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,

Like many notable quotes about architecture, it speaks to grandeur, permanence, scale. One imagines Lázló Tóth, the visionary Hungarian architect who escaped the Holocaust and sailed to the United States to find his American Dream, would heartily agree.

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,