With less than two weeks until the 2025 Academy Awards, another major contender is now available to stream online.
Nominated for 10 Oscars, “The Brutalist” is director Brady Corbet‘s large-scale American epic about a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who immigrates after the war. László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, is a Bauhaus-trained architect struggling to achieve the American Dream until a wealthy industrialist (played by Guy Pearce) enters his life and changes it forever.
Even if you didn’t know what “The Brutalist” was about until right now, you’ve probably heard about the run time. In theaters, it ran over 3.5 hours.
In his 4-star review of the film, The Post’s entertainment critic Johnny Oleksinski wrote, “don’t let the marathon length scare you away. Because parallel to its grand scale is its outstanding quality.”
Elsewhere in the review, he wrote, “To say I was never bored wouldn’t be quite right. Rather, I was always transfixed.”
Awards voters likely have been, too; Brody has already taken home Best Actor at the Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Critics Choice Awards. Among the film’s 10 Oscar nominations are Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (Corbet and his partner Mona Fastvold), Best Actor (Brody), Best Supporting Actor (Pearce), and Best Supporting Actress (Felicity Jones, who plays Tóth’s wife, Erzsébet).
“The Brutalist” is streaming on-demand on platforms like Prime Video now! “The Brutalist” was released on digital today, Feb. 18.
“The Brutalist” is available for digital purchase on Prime Video. The film costs $19.99 to buy.
While you won’t have to be a paid Amazon Prime member to buy or rent “The Brutalist,” you will need at least a free Amazon account; that way, you can return to watch “The Brutalist” whenever you want to.
Amazon lists the run time of “The Brutalist” as three hours and 20 minutes. This means the digital copy of “The Brutalist” likely does not include the 15-minute intermission built into the theatrical run time (which is listed at three hours and 35 minutes).
That being said, if you want to create your own intermission mid-film to get the full “The Brutalist” experience, pause it when “Part 2: The Hard Core of Beauty” appears on screen — this is where the intermission would be if the digital copy had one.
“The Brutalist” is not directly based on a true story; the film’s main character László Tóth was not a real person, nor were any of the characters who surround him.
However, themes the film explores, such as post-war architecture and immigration following the Holocaust, are very real things.
In an interview with NPR, Brody explained one of the reasons why “The Brutalist” tells a fictional story, saying, “The reason it’s a fictional story is because when Brady [Corbet] and Mona [Fastvold] were doing their research to try and write a film about a European architect who survived the Nazi occupation and carried on his work in America, there were none to be found because they’d all been killed.”
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