The Brutalist (18)

★★★★★ Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones star in a majestic historical epic from the director Brady Corbet. This may be the film to beat at the Oscars. ~ The Times.

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Brady Corbet's staggering epic, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce.

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. 

On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building.

But power and legacy come at a heavy cost… 

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★★★★★ Adrien Brody is tremendous as a visionary architect in Brady Corbet’s towering third feature, a state-of-the-US historical epic with the colour and fizz of a classical Hollywood comic drama. ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★★ In a superb performance, Brody plays a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who comes to the US and begins a distinguished career under the patronage of a wealthy man. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★★ Brody’s Jewish refugee mud-wrestles American capitalism in this astonishing film. ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★★ Brody is Oscar-worthy in a mighty, discordant anthem to the birth of modern America. ~ Time Out.

★★★★★ A life writ large on the screen that deserves such maximalist treatment. ~ Financial Times.

★★★★★ Brady Corbet’s seismic drama reaches for the sky as it surveys the soul of a man and a nation. There will be Oscars. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ It is impossible not to recognise The Brutalist as anything other than a filmmaking triumph. ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★★ A staggering achievement in every conceivable way. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★★ An unmissable giant of a film that deserves all the Oscars. ~ NME

★★★★★ ~ The Independent.

★★★★★ ~ The Scotsman.

★★★★★ ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ ~ Time Out.

★★★★★ ~ The i.

★★★★✭~ RTE.

★★★★ ~ The Irish Independent.

★★★★ ~ The Observer.