Nothing Is Free

The Brutalist, if you couldn’t guess by the title, is a film about architecture. This is a genre with an unfortunate track record, whether as films or as depictions of its subject matter. Fortunately for architecture and for moviegoers, The Brutalist is a remarkably different film, one that stands out from earlier examples like The Fountainhead and, more recently, Megalopolis, which retread hackneyed tropes about the architect as heroic visionary stuck in a world that misunderstands him.