Xan Brooks

The Hollywood romcom is turned on it head in this tale of an exotic dancer and an oligarch’s son who get hitched before the honeymoon turns sour

The Hollywood romcom is turned on it head in this tale of an exotic dancer and an oligarch’s son who get hitched before the honeymoon turns sour

Xan Brooks · 11-min read The Brutalist is a big, muscular American epic that pits the individual against the machine; the artist against the cogs and wheels of commerce.

The film-maker’s latest is a three and-a-half-hour epic about the building of a modernist masterpiece, and the toll its creation takes on its architect. The film’s making was almost as gruelling. ‘People told me I’d never make another movie’, Corbet says

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The familiarity of the Dracula legend makes this creepy new take on it almost reassuring, says Xan Brooks – just like other classic horror films

This week sees the two actors going head-to-head at the multiplex with competing star vehicles – but the staid biopic ‘Maria' and the playful erotic thriller ‘Babygirl' only expose how disappointingly the two women's careers have diverged over the last 20 years, writes

This week sees the two actors going head-to-head at the multiplex with competing star vehicles – but the staid biopic ‘Maria’ and the playful erotic thriller ‘Babygirl’ only expose how disappointingly the two women’s careers have diverged over the last 20 years, writes Xan Brooks

He quit in 2022, but smoking was previously an integral part of the film-maker’s life and art

Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ is a defiant, distinctive masterpiece at loggerheads with conventional film industry wisdom. And, just like Francis Ford Coppola’s maddening self-funded ‘Megalopolis’ last year, it’s a nod to a far more interesting kind of American filmmaking, writes Xan Brooks