I love a filmmaker with the cojones of steel to put an intermission into his film in this day and age.
The Brutalist was absolutely stunning and I could barely take my eyes off of it throughout its gargantuan runtime. Its themes of immigrant intolerance and capitalist dominance seem to have emerged at a poignant inflection point where these movements are at their most prevalent in decades, and they are so deeply woven into this narrative through fascinating characters whose…