The Brutalist Review: Adrien Brody's Career Best Performance

<p>The Brutalist runs for three hours and thirty-five minutes including an intermission, and not one minute is wasted. Brady Corbet epic film about a Hungarian Jewish architect who emigrates to America after World War II is the kind of ambitious, uncompromising filmmaking that cinema was invented for.</p><h2>Adrien Brody</h2><p>Brody performance as Laszlo Toth is extraordinary. It is a study in dignity, ambition, compromise, and survival. Felicity Jones matches him completely as his wife Erzsebet. Guy Pearce is menacing as Harrison Lee Van Buren, the American patron who shapes and warps Toth destiny.</p><h2>The Verdict</h2><p>The Brutalist is a masterpiece of American cinema. Demanding, beautiful, unforgettable. Rating: 10/10. In theaters now.</p>