director Brady Corbet‘s large-scale American epic about a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who immigrates after the war. László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, is a Bauhaus-trained architect struggling to achieve the American Dream until a wealthy industrialist (played by Guy Pearce) enters his life and changes it forever.
Even if you didn’t know what “The Brutalist” was about until right now, you’ve probably heard about the run time. In theaters, it ran over 3.5 hours.
In his 4-star review of the film, The Post’s entertainment critic Johnny Oleksinski wrote, “don’t let the marathon length scare you away.
Because parallel to its grand scale is its outstanding quality.”Elsewhere in the review, he wrote, “To say I was never bored wouldn’t be quite right.
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