The Zone

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Ben Sixsmith
Feb 02, 2025
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This review contains spoilers.

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody as a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who migrates to the US, is one of the more visually striking films I’ve ever seen, from its stark landscapes to its sensual interiors.

As it happens, I think that brutalist architecture can be very striking. I can’t claim to be an ex…

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