Tremendously subtle and complex, and an unflinching gut punch to the American dream. Adrien Brody carries the film with his sensitively nuanced presence, and will deservingly be a Best Actor Oscar nominee or winner. Excellence in plenty of other areas, including score/sound, cinematography, even graphic design. Guy Pearce is also a standout as the arrogantly self-centered industrialist. I'm a sucker for architecture movies filled with scenes of drawing and building, especially when the architect has to openly fight the client,…

Knowing the premise and having seen a few short clips (of different times of day) in the past, I was happy to get to spend a longer chunk of time with Marclay's work this afternoon. It really is so very smart, mixing a cinephile's love of film history, actors, scenes, sets, and moments (it's hard not to try to identify each clip, and when a famous one comes along, it's like an old friend) with an artist's overarching conceptual framework…