Director Brady Corbet’s film “The Brutalist,” a vast and imposing ... Meanwhile, the central chapel, with its opening in the ceiling, represents a route out. “There was a lot of references ...

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.

A key contrast, however, is that the work of Corbet is far more approachable and inviting than the often impenetrable and stoic lines that defined the Brutalist style that arose in the 1950s.

Toth is hired by a wealthy industrialist to build a massive community center in his "brutalist" style – a form of architecture that's light on decoration and heavy on concrete. To get Toth just ...

Without confusing the film’s title with the Brutalist style of the 1960s and ’70s, we can see throughout the film that architecture is not a mere style, but always reflects the tensions of the ...

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 ...

Image-conscious Harrison then hires the Hungarian to build an expensive showstopper monument to his late mother, and a community center, in his novel brutalism style. The perilous struggles of ...