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The best films of 2025, from One Battle After Another to Sinners, Marty Supreme and more

Paul Thomas Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti and Timothée Chalamet all stole the limelight, but we also trembled with surprise at Alexander Skarsgård’s BDSM biker in Pillion

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The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, and more

Check out our guide to the best movies and shows streaming this week, May 19–May 25

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7 best new movies to stream this weekend on Netflix, Max, Paramount Plus, and more (May 17-18)

Not sure what to watch this weekend? 'The Minecraft Movie,' 'The Brutalist,' 'Novocaine' and more movie night hits are now streaming

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New on HBO and Max in May 2025 — all the new shows and movies to watch

Our guide to everything new show and movie on HBO and Max in May 2025.

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How Kodak film and VistaVision shaped the distinctive Oscar-winning look of 'The Brutalist'

With a budget of under $10 million, DP Lol Crawley utilized VistaVision and Kodak film stock to create The Brutalist's timeless aesthetic

Digital Camera World

The Brutalist's Adrien Brody becomes a two-time Best Actor winner at the 2025 Oscars: "This is the chance to begin again"

The award for Best Actor goes to Adrien Brody

Total Film

Adrien Brody wins best actor Oscar for The Brutalist

Former youngest-ever winner of best actor Oscar wins award again for his portrayal of fictional architect in Brady Corbet’s epic drama

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British composer Daniel Blumberg wins best original score Oscar for The Brutalist

Sole previous scoring credit on a full-length film for the singer, guitar player and visual artist is The World to Come

The Guardian - UK

The Brutalist: Why Brady Corbet’s 215-minute masterpiece deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture

OSCARS 2025: The dense and stylish period epic starring Adrien Brody is going into the Oscar weekend no longer as the Best Picture frontrunner… and it’s an understandable if disappointing development, writes Louis Chilton

The Independent UK

Salon's infallible Oscar predictions

Salon's film critic and resident film buff are here to make sense of the most unpredictable awards season in years

Salon

Why The Brutalist should win the best picture Oscar

With its awe-inspiring images and ideas and fantastic performances by Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce, the three hours-plus runtime starts to look stingy

The Guardian - UK

Oscars 2025: who will likely win, who should win, and who barely deserves to be there

We’ve probably all had a moment when we stopped taking the Oscars too seriously. For me, it was when Denzel Washington won best actor for Training Day (2001), a crime film in which he displays virtually none of his acting chops.

The Conversation

Brutalism – the architectural style that dared to summon a new world from the ashes of World War II

Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism, the architectural style that gives the film its name.

The Conversation

Oscars 2025: best actor nominees – awards, interviews and what their chances are

What to know about the actors nominated for the Academy Awards’ biggest acting prize, along with the Guardian’s reviews and interviews

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The Independent UK

The Brutalist director says Oscar contender made him ‘zero dollars’

Director says he took jobs directing advertisements to make money

The Conversation

Bauhaus and The Brutalist: the revolutionary immigrant architects whose stories inspired the film

László Toth, a Hungarian Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor, emigrates to the United States after World War II in search of a new life. After a rough start, a wealthy businessman recognises his talent and offers him a job that will change his life.

The Guardian - UK

Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist

Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism

The Independent UK

Behind the rise, fall and rise again of Adrien Brody

INSIDE FILM: In 2003, the American actor became the youngest ever Best Actor Oscar winner for his role in Roman Polanski’s ‘The Pianist’. What followed were two decades of some of the most perplexing choices an A-list star could make. But, as Brody mounts a surprise comeback courtesy of the…

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The Guardian - UK

The Brutalist review – Brady Corbet’s audacious architecture drama is a monumental achievement

The director’s Adrien Brody-starring tale of a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor building a new future in the US moves him into the big league

The Independent UK

'The Brutalist' doesn't work without Guy Pearce

Over the years, Guy Pearce has been good in most all things

The Guardian - UK

Lights, camera, concrete! How Hollywood is playing a part in brutalism’s redemption

Oscar-tipped film The Brutalist is the latest stage in the cultural rehabilitation of what was once architecture’s most reviled style but is now winning a new generation of admirers

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #173: In praise of The Brutalist’s bladder-friendly intermission

Brady Corbet’s three-hour American epic has a helpful 15-minute break – with Hollywood’s ever-escalating runtimes, shouldn’t this be the norm?

The Guardian - UK

Experts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildings

Architectural historians say success of Brady Corbet’s film could help in fight to protect heritage of divisive style

The Guardian - UK

‘People often don’t feel treated as equals’: Adrien Brody on complexity, comebacks and The Brutalist

Twenty-two years after The Pianist, the actor is again Oscar frontrunner for a post-Holocaust epic. He talks about renovating a castle, unfulfilled yearnings and making his parents happy

Woman & Home

Is The Brutalist based on a true story and how to watch it in the UK

After The Brutalist won three Golden Globe awards, it's piqued the interest of potential viewers who want to know if it's a true story and where they can watch it.

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