"Few films have done it like this one in a long, long time."
— Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle
"It is impossible not to recognise The Brutalist as anything other than a filmmaking triumph."
— Tom Davidson, London Evening Standard
"Corbet, who's only 36, is already a director of startling confidence, and he's made a rare American film that feels genuinely worthy of the word 'epic.'"
— Justin Chang, NPR
"It’s 3 hours and 35 minutes long (including a 15-minute intermission), and while it’s full and complete, it never drags or feels padded. It is, simply put, a great movie."
— Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
"It’s a gorgeous piece of filmmaking, with Corbet and co-writer Mona Fastvold cannily writing in opportunities for cinematographer Lol Crawley to razzle-dazzle."
— Kimberley Jones, Austin Chronicle
"Brody and Pearce vividly manifest Corbet’s arguments about the clash between art and money, between the old world and the new. When they are blazing away on screen together, The Brutalist swells to epic size."
— Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
"Don’t let the marathon length scare you away. Because parallel to its grand scale is its outstanding quality. As the year comes to a close, The Brutalist finally hands us the bewitching epic for adults that 2024 otherwise lacked."
— Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post
"The Brutalist is Corbet’s colossus: it’s a massive American epic that damns the ground we stand on. Corbet achieves this without leaning too heavily on his predecessors, instead forging a myth from the bedrock of this country’s brutal psyche."
— Maxwell Rabb, Chicago Reader
"Every piece of the architectural design of 'The Brutalist' fits so perfectly into Corbet’s vision, a sprawling yet intimate story that leaps forward to the ‘80s and even has the moxie to flip the philosophical switch on a famous Ralph Waldo Emerson quote."
— Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News
"Brady Corbet’s engulfing masterpiece about an immigrant architect (an Oscarbound Adrien Brody) is the best movie of the year, but it’s also way more than that— an unsentimental; uncompromising thunderbolt of pure cinema that Corbet has built to last."
— Peter Travers, ABC News
