Joe Alwyn

Film Review: The Brutalist stands strong with its psychological scaffolding

It’s all a little too easy to accuse actor-turned-director Brady Corbet of indulging in his own self given the running time of his third feature The Brutalist; the 215 minute drama following 2015’s The Childhood of a Leader and 2018’s divisive Natalie Portman feature Vox Lux.  The length, however, (which also includes a needed 15…

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Kinds of Kindness is a blackly comic, absurdist, and boundary-pushing surrealist drama that will test audience limits: Sydney Film Festival Review

As Yorgos Lanthimos built up his profile with more mainstream-inclined audiences over the years – blending his unique storytelling vision with noticeable, A-list talent – the filmmaker viscerally tells them to essentially f*ck off with Kinds of Kindness, a 164-minute blackly comic, absurdist, and boundary-pushing surrealist drama that makes his previous oddity, last year’s award-winning…

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