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REVIEW: ‘The Brutalist’ is an epic tale of American building and belonging

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65% Informative

Adrien Brody stars as Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor Laszlo Toth , a Holocaust survivor who comes to the U.S. after the war to complete his vision of a masterpiece on a hill.

Brady Corbet is an actor turned writer-director who, at 36 , has ambition to burn, but you can feel the movie love coursing through his veins.

It's a surprisingly fleet and involving saga, maybe not a masterpiece but a good, meaty , provocative story with complicated characters.

This does not play out as an innocent sacrificed, because Laszlo isn’t an innocent.

Jones brings as much ferocity to her role as she can, but she’s not quite the stricken dreadnought the script requires her to be.

Pearce has never been better as a mid-20th-century Great Man with a smaller, meaner man inside him.

VR Score

53

Informative language

45

Neutral language

17

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

50

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

External references

8

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