“The Brutalist” is also an American immigration tale, as well as catnip for anyone with a passing interest in architecture or design. Director Corbet wastes no time handing us his thematic ...

Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett ... It also bares the faults of the architect’s American-born peers. “Everything that is ugly, cruel, stupid — but, most ...

Credit: Directed by Brady Corbet, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce. Rating/Runtime: R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity, rape, drug use and some language. 215 minutes ...

The American myth is something that is not ... many people wanted them torn down immediately… Brutalist architecture is representative of something that people do not understand and that they ...

László Tóth’s brutalist architecture visions stand in stark contrast to American architecture; height is more than just an egotistical flourish and decorative detailing is a superfluous affectation.

But the English associations of the word "brutal" give "brutalist" architecture a forbidding ... 1940s only to experience the brutalities of American capitalism. We will eventually learn (spoiler ...

Adrien Brody stars in Brady Corbet’s epic drama about a brilliant architect from Budapest hired by a dangerous capitalist played by Guy Pearce “The Brutalist ... of how the American Dream ...

The Brutalist is a towering paean to the American dream ... he continues to speak of architecture with poetic adoration. ("I always find our conversations intellectually stimulating!" ...

Brutalist architecture emerged in the 1950s as a post ... of the double-edged sword that is forced assimilation into American culture. Its soundtrack, blaring with sharp blows of brass, evokes ...

The title of “The Brutalist,” Brady Corbet’s big swing of an American epic, refers to many things. Any builder who works in the imposing minimalist school of post-World War II architecture ...