The Brutalist (2025)

‘The Brutalist’ Finds Director Brady Corbet in Epic Yet Overlong Mode. The young director’s latest film stars Adrien Brody as an architect who flees post-war persecution and takes on a mysterious, wealthy new client. Opening in limited theatrical release on December 20th, ‘The Brutalist’ seems sure to challenge notions of how long is too long, even when the writer/director in charge is the prodigiously talented Brady Corbet.

Since switching from acting to directing with 2015’s ‘The Childhood of a Leader,’ Brady Corbet has labored away on ‘Vox Lux’ and now this story of one man’s eventful voyage to America, where he strives to build a new life while falling prey to his own vices and other people’s avaricious attitudes. The question is, is there a huge audience for a movie that runs 3 hours and 45 minutes, including a 15 minute intermission?