The Brutalist (2024)

The entire idea behind this must've been "Brutalist architect... so the movie should be brutally long and brutally tedious and ultimately plunge the audience into a brutal depth of despair!"

When you demand that I give up more than a fifth of my day to watch your film, it should go out of its way to keep me engaged. Instead, everything's obscured and secretive: the script played it so close to the vest that I was often unsure whether my inferences were the intended ones. For example, keeping the "why" for Toth's community center design choices a secret -- only to be revealed in an end-of-movie, way in the future speech -- was ridiculous.

I have nothing bad to say about the performances and I'm happy that those involved got recognition for their work, though.

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