In the film, the imaginary building evokes both the best and worst of postwar architecture and brutalism, with camera angles and lighting emphasizing its giant volumes of space and hard geometric ...

Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.

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 ...

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” is a throwback to the days when ...