For many months, I did not think I would see The Brutalist. I try to watch movies as cold as possible, without knowing anything about them, so all I knew about the film was that 1) it was 3.5 hours long, 2) it was about architecture, 3) Adrien Brody was in it, and, based on the trailers I could not avoid, 4) it was from A24 and “artsy.” The first two factors are deterrents for me (I think I’m the only critic who didn’t like