For 15 minutes in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, audiences are confronted with a still image. Adrien Brody, as immigrant architect Laszlo Tóth, stands with his bride outside a Budapest synagogue, surrounded by family.

That dialogue, it turns out, may have been supplemented by an AI speech tool.  Jancsó is a native Hungarian speaker; he knows how difficult the language is to replicate. That’s true even for Brody, whose mother is in fact a Hungarian refugee.

Adrien Brody returns to Oscar-winning form as architect László Toth, a Holocaust survivor who arrives in America to start a new life.

On this month's The Bigger Picture, we explore that complexity, and talk with a Houstonian from Nigeria about his experience assimilating in America.

One of the most acclaimed movies of 2024 is about a Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor who settles in Philadelphia.

After so many years of setbacks and threats, he keeps returning to his great new American building. It is torture; it is hell, but on he goes. In a Europe ravaged by wars, brutalism found a purpose in the relatively inexpensive and abundant nature of concrete and the need for large,

Warning: light spoilers.

PLOT Following the horrors of World War II, a Jewish architect embarks on a troubled career in America. BOTTOM LINE A towering achievement despite its flaws. If you build a masterpiece that eventually falls apart, was it still a masterpiece?

"The Brutalist" is a nearly four-hour historical drama starring Adrien Brody as celebrated architect László Tóth. Here's what's real in the new movie.

In parallel, there is another trend developing: full disclosure that AI has not been used in a film's production. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are the directors of the recent Hugh Grant psychological horror, Heretic. They decided to put a statement in the film's credits:“No generative AI was used in the making of this film”.

"A Complete Unknown," "A Real Pain," "September 5" and a documentary produced by an Israeli-Palestinian collective received nominations.