With only his third feature, Brady Corbet makes a bid for the canon, an ambition reflected in his protagonist, Hungarian architect László Toth, played with passion and pathos by Adrien Brody.

Italy is often thought of as a political laboratory, anticipating events in other countries: fascism in the 1920s; the showman-businessman turned politician in the 1990s; populism in the 2010s. Great ...

“The Brutalist” — A24’s modern odyssey starring Adrien Brody as Hungarian architect László Toth who flees postwar Europe for a new life in America — has high highs, low lows and an almost overwhelming ...