The Brutalist is a 3-and-a-half hour long drama telling the story of fictional László Tóth, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States, where he struggles to achieve the American Dream until a wealthy client changes his life. Directed by Brady Corbet (Vox Lux), its cast includes Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce. Whilst there are real-life László Tóths, it’s worth noting that this film is about a fictional character.
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For me Gladiator did not need a sequel. It’s one of my all-time favourite movies, and as much as I didn’t want that movie to end, it came to a poignant and brave conclusion. Yet here we are. Nearly twentyfive years later and of course I’m excited, if cautiously. I remember going to the cinema, back in 2000, and seeing Ridley Scott’s masterpiece. ‘Seeing’ doesn’t do the experience any justice. I saw it, heard it, felt it, experienced it. Man alive; it was, and still is, brilliant.
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Much has been written about the film Here. I mean, not here, but elsewhere. Sadly, very little of it sounds positive. The static camera gimmick, capturing everything that happens in a single spot throughout time, from dinosaurs trampling around it to folk building a house around it so we can see what happens in their living room, seems to have fallen flat with most critics.
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