Brady Corbet, center, on the set of 'The Brutalist.' Trevor Matthews* Step into the lobby of the midtown New York offices of A24, the film production company that’s earned its reputation as an ...

Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” emerged less like a new film worth checking out than a movie colossus to behold. Corbet’s visionary three-and-a-half-hour postwar American epic, shot in ...