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,

The Brutalist” piles a lot on its plate, but at bottom it’s a story of an irresistible object — László — meeting the immovable forces of American caste, capitalism, aesthetics and exclusion. The antisemitism of Van Buren’s world isn’t obvious,

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,

This year's epic that you simply must see is The Brutalist which comes from director and co-writer Brady Corbet. The Brutalist, which is the third feature film directed by Corbet (an actor-turned-director who you may remember from the U.