Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce star in Brady Corbet’s ambitious post-World War II saga.

At 215 minutes, writer-director Brady Corbet swings for the fences with his "monumental" film about an architect who has fled the Holocaust for America. "It's about tortured geniuses and the vile money men who exploit and defile them,

Though not for everyone, it’s a film that can justifiably be described as “epic” in ambition and design. And, wouldn’t you know, ambition and design are precisely what the movie’s about. Of course, that’s not all.

This year's epic that you simply must see is The Brutalist which comes from director and co-writer Brady Corbet. The Brutalist, which is the third feature film directed by Corbet (an actor-turned-director who you may remember from the U.