The Brutalist Review (2024) — 83% Celluloid Score
Directed by Brady Corbet · 2024 ·
The Brutalist (2024) earns a 83% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Critics (93%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (80%).
Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, Letterboxd, IMDb). See how we calculate scores.
Five-source breakdown
🏆 11 award wins · 9 nominations — Won Best Actor, Academy Awards 2025
A24 Why this score?
- Strong critic approval (93% positive).
- General viewers mostly liked it (80%).
- Metascore signals universal acclaim (90/100).
- Letterboxd diarists rate it highly (4/5).
- Celluloid Score 83% averages all five public rating sources — our own composite, not a third-party trademark score.
Best for
- Viewers who want a well-regarded drama pick
- Epic-length viewers who want a big-screen experience
- Critics' darlings — stronger with reviewers than general viewers
Not ideal for
- Viewers who dislike long runtimes
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Is The Brutalist worth watching?
Yes — The Brutalist earns a 83% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.
Critics Consensus
An audacious, VistaVision-shot epic of immigration and artistic obsession — monumental in scale and ambition, with a towering Adrien Brody at its centre.
Celluloid Critics Consensus
Critics (93%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (80%).
What is The Brutalist about?
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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