At 215 minutes, writer-director Brady Corbet swings for the fences with his "monumental" film about an architect who has fled the Holocaust for America. "It's about tortured geniuses and the vile money men who exploit and defile them,

Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce star in Brady Corbet’s ambitious post-World War II saga.

Like many notable quotes about architecture, it speaks to grandeur, permanence, scale. One imagines Lázló Tóth, the visionary Hungarian architect who escaped the Holocaust and sailed to the United States to find his American Dream, would heartily agree.

This year's epic that you simply must see is The Brutalist which comes from director and co-writer Brady Corbet. The Brutalist, which is the third feature film directed by Corbet (an actor-turned-director who you may remember from the U.