“The Brutalist” Review

There’s something so grand about Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist that the notion kept crossing my mind that it must’ve been plucked from something else. It’s an ambitious and intricate film with such masterful construction that surely it was based on a true story or adapted from a novel. Maybe the towering structure that dominates the narrative is a real place. But none of this came from a real person, real building, or acclaimed book. The Brutalist is a true original of filmmaking that taps into ...