The Brutalist - Recensioner

...this piece of art, accompanied by Daniel Blumberg's incredible two-hour score, is a bold epic – one with the narrative depth and scale of a rich classic novel that will stay with you for days afterwards.

Brady Corbet’s audacious architecture drama is a monumental achievement

Brady Corbet’s American Epic Is Built to Weather the Ages.

...beautifully builds a towering immigration epic.

...epic Adrien Brody postwar architectural drama stuns and electrifies.

...a colossal cinematic achievement.

Dense and technically brilliant, The Brutalist reflects the bitter reality of assimilation.

...Corbet’s epic draws a perfectly self-evident connection between the weight of its raw material and that of the concrete monolith Tóth creates over the course of the story...

...a bold, beautiful, and brutal look at the United States, not how we like to think of the country, but how it actually is for those smothered underneath it.

Adrien Brody is phenomenal in an intense, character-driven epic.

It’s a film that turns inward into itself, winding its themes around its characters like a great American novel.

An epic in length, weight and ambition.

...thrillingly uncontainable, even after two viewings.

Adrien Brody is phenomenal in Brady Corbet's sublime three-and-a-half hour drama, as a Jewish architect arrives in post-war America to a hostile new world.

...there’s much to be admired about this ambitious, bold and epic awards-bait historical drama.