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Quick Answer: Is The Brutalist or Anora the stronger 2025 awards film?

Anora leads on Celluloid Score (85% vs 84%). Anora is the punchy contemporary comedy-drama; The Brutalist is the monumental immigrant epic. Scores combine verified editorial and independent rating inputs.

The matchup

Anora is the punchy contemporary comedy-drama; The Brutalist is the monumental immigrant epic.

Awards-season contrast: Anora’s runtime and tonal agility versus The Brutalist’s scale and architectural metaphor. Celluloid Scores and consensus blurbs make the appetite test clear before you commit an evening.

The Brutalist (2024)

Brady Corbet · Drama · 3h 35m

United States · English · Dec 20, 2024

84%
Celluloid Score Recommended

An audacious, VistaVision-shot epic of immigration and artistic obsession — monumental in scale and ambition, with a towering Adrien Brody at its centre.

A Hungarian-Jewish architect survives the Holocaust and emigrates to America, where a wealthy industrialist's patronage promises to resurrect his genius — and slowly reveals the cost, cruelty and compromise buried in the foundations of the postwar American dream.

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Anora (2024)

Sean Baker · Comedy, Drama, Romance · 2h 19m

United States · English · Oct 18, 2024

85%
Celluloid Score Recommended

Sean Baker's whirlwind of comedy, tenderness and class fury is a career peak — anchored by a fearless, star-making Mikey Madison and paced like a farce that keeps breaking your heart.

A young sex worker from Brooklyn impulsively marries the reckless son of a Russian oligarch, and her Cinderella fantasy detonates when his family dispatches a trio of henchmen to annul the union — sending her on a chaotic, screwball odyssey across a single frantic night in New York.

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Score breakdown

Signal The Brutalist Anora
Celluloid Score 84% 85%
Editorial rating 93/100 93/100
Audience snapshot (excluded) 80% 79%
Metascore 90 91
Letterboxd 4 4.1
IMDb 7.3 7.4
Runtime 3h 35m 2h 19m
Country United States United States

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