“Thick with the heavy, gun-metal austerity of films like Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master and Todd Field’s Tár, The Brutalist sometimes feels like a director trying to will a masterpiece into being. Corbet very nearly gets there. The filmmaking hums with purpose and import, paced at a marvelously brisk clip. The textures and scale of the movie are astonishing.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 01/09/2025