No Substance #213: Brady Corbet's The Brutalist

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist wants to be an intelligent and thoughtful film and for the most part it is. It’s also startlingly beautiful as well. In many ways, it’s a hard film to dislike, though it tries you on this, because at times it’s not as smart as it wants to be, particularly with how it discusses architecture, and the end is a muddled collectio…