It is exceedingly rare to have a major Hollywood film take architecture as its central ... Coppola’s Megalopolis and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist are wildly different in tone and tenor ...

Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.

He and his co-screenwriter Mona Fastvold — his partner and an actor and director — resolve the indifference some might have over Brutalism architecture by pouring a rich, dense narrative ...