It takes more than just length for a film to become an epic but at 215 minutes, plus a fifteen-minute interval, The Brutalist meets that first requirement. It also needs to be about something greater than just the domestic travails of its characters and it ticks that box, too.

“The Brutalist” is a moving work of art that captures the deep pain of dispossession and the long-lasting mental scars of the Holocaust on the Western world in increasingly subtle ways until a final denouement provides a coda sure to haunt the audience for a long time to come.

On Sunday, March 2, the 97th-annual Academy Awards ceremony will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Dolby

Pearce, who lives in the Netherlands with his partner, actor Carice van Houten, and their son, has generally kept much of Hollywood at arm’s length. In conversation, he tends to be chipper and humble — more interested in talking Aussie rules football than the Oscar race.

Some have criticized filmmakers for using AI to alter the dialogue of Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.

Perhaps the most famous Brutalist building in the United States is the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Brutalist architecture is characterized by raw concrete walls, imposing geometrism and repetition, reshaping space for the human collective and providing a site of modern living and life for the people.

The Oscar-nominated film "The Brutalist," directed by directed by Scottsdale's own Brady Corbet, has people talking about architectural history. You can see some examples in metro Phoenix.

Weeks before The Brutalist sparked a debate over its use of generative AI, director Brady Corbet spoke with CBC’s Eli Glasner about why casting Adrien Brody was a 'no-brainer' and the challenges of portraying architecture in the 10-time Oscar-nominated film.

The Brutalist”—starring Adrien Brody—finally gets a wide release following 10 Oscar nominations. What do critics have to say about director Brady Corbet’s historical epic?

“The Brutalist” is a fictional tale of a Jewish Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor’s struggle to rebuild his life and career, and his fictional creations in the movie include an episcopal church in Greenwich and a reform synagogue in Wilton. In real life, Connecticut has been home to some of the architects who shaped the Brutalist movement.

The Brutalist” is as much the text itself — a story of a Holocaust survivor and talented architect, Laszlo (Adrien Brody), who makes his way to the U.S. and befriends a powerful patron, Van Buren (Guy Pierce),

Adrien Brody—in a year when Timothy Chalamet sang, learned guitar and played harmonica winningly as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown—deserves a second Oscar for this 3 1/2-hour epic.