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My Top 10 Films Of 2024 #1 - The Brutalist Critics Score - 10 of 10 It was back in September when I first heard rumblings about a film called The Brutalist. So when I saw it was picked up by A24 and it would be at the Chicago International Film Festival in Oct., I booked a flight and went to see it. I saw a few films while I was there, but the trip was completely worth it just for this mid 20th century story about an immigrant architect. To say this film about the illusion of the “American Dream” is a marvel is an understatement. It is grandiose and epic filmmaking at its finest in the same vein as Lawrence Of Arabia and There Will Be Blood. Brady Corbet directs the hell out of an all star cast and finds something here that few filmmakers ever hope to achieve, a piece of perfect cinema. This film will take home Oscar gold, Best Picture is still TBD, but the quality of this film cannot be questioned. In virtually every way, the production design, score, sound cinematography, editing, I ...

The Brutalist - Movie Review Critics Score - 10 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Once in a while, a movie comes along that just feels different in terms of its scale. I don’t even mean scale in the way that Saving Private Ryan, Inception or Rocky hit different, all of which were genre defining films that have a grandeur to them that few films achieve. I’m taking about films like Lawrence Of Arabia or There Will Be Blood, movies that follow a characters journey over vast stretches of time and space. These films just have a different scope to them that puts them in a category almost unto themselves. Welcome to the party The Brutalist, an epic new film from A24 that feels as big and vast as any of the films I mentioned. The basic story consists of the immigrant architect László that gets in with an incredibly wealthy benefactor who hires him for a massive project. Brutalist covers quite a lengthy period of time that the two men have a mostly functional work relationship. Adrian Brod...