
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.