In a dark corner of a mansion in mid-century Pennsylvania, Erzsébet, a Hungarian immigrant rebuilding her life in America, pores over the contents of a desk. Scattered across it are sketches and ...

“The making of a good building,” observed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, “is a great moral performance.” Like many notable quotes about architecture, it speaks to grandeur, permanence, scale. One ...

“The Brutalist” is an ambitious undertaking, a somber examination about an immigrant’s journey to America after World War II. Writer/director Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half hour epic picked up 10 ...

In spite of the extraordinary runtime of Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist (a three and a half hour epic that includes an intermission), the film has been making quite the buzz during the 2025 awards ...

László Toth, a Hungarian Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor, emigrates to the United States after World War II in search of a new life. After a rough start, a wealthy businessman recognises his ...

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist may have narrowly missed out on Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards, but the film still deserves credit for its masterful storytelling and incredibly rich themes. The ...

Few films engage with architecture like “The Brutalist” does. In the film, director Brady Corbet does not relegate architecture to the background but instead explores it through the experience of a ...

“A good dip should whet the appetite, a great dip could be lunch and an excellent dip is really dinner.” I’m Glenn Whipp, columnist for the Los Angeles Times and host of The Envelope’s Monday ...

2024's The Brutalist features an outstanding cast led by Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody. Directed by Brady Corbet (Vox Lux, The Crowded Room), The Brutalist is a Best Picture contender at the 97th ...