At 215 minutes, writer-director Brady Corbet swings for the fences with his "monumental" film about an architect who has fled the Holocaust for America. "It's about tortured geniuses and the vile money men who exploit and defile them,

Adrien Brody stars in Brady Corbet’s epic drama about a brilliant architect from Budapest hired by a dangerous capitalist played by Guy Pearce

For the last decade or so, it has sometimes seemed as if Hollywood has lost its grandest ambition—not merely to entertain, provoke, or create art, but to pursue and portray America's national myths, to reflect the nation back on itself in new and revelatory ways.