The Brutalist” is many things: some blunt, others loose and dangling, still others richly provocative, most of them remarkable. Among the 2024 movie releases worth arguments and accolades, director and co-writer Brady Corbet’s third feature has the most evident problems — subplots and supporting characters left hanging,

"The Brutalist" also won best motion picture drama, while Kieran Culkin nabbed a prize for his role in "A Real Pain."

That praise isn’t undeserved, by any means, especially since Adrien Brody gives a flawless performance as a brilliant Hungarian architect — an artist of genius — struggling to put his stamp on the American landscape in the years after World War II.