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Tom Davidson

The Brutalist film review: Adrien Brody brings power and depth to this filmmaking triumph

The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet's third feature, is a movie of such colossal size and scope it may well have been carved from marble; an epic paean to the immigrant experience in America in the wake of the Second World War.

'Monumental' has been the word of choice for a slew of critics who have been overwhelmed by the (fictional) story of László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and flees to the USA.

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