Even in a year this stacked with masterworks of indie cinema (i.e. Anora and The Substance), The Brutalist has stood out for the rapturous reaction it’s getting from serious moviegoers.
The 3.5-hour epic premiered at the Venice International Film Festival earlier this September and has been making the rounds with festival crowds in New York and Toronto ever since.
Along the way, a suitably insane mythology surrounding it has developed: from the notoriously hard-to-transport VistaVision…

