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The Brutalist

February 2026

  • Actor Stacy Martin with her hand on her brow

    ‘I don’t want to do the same thing over and over’: Stacy Martin on risky roles, tequila at the Oscars and her Jurassic Park dream

    After experiencing the strangeness of the Academy Awards with her last film The Brutalist, the indie actor has reunited with its creators for period curio The Testament of Ann Lee. But what she’d really like to get her teeth into is a certain dino franchise

January 2026

  • A still from The Brutalist.

    Make films shorter if you want them shown in cinemas, says Picturehouse director

    Clare Binns says three-hour runtimes deter audiences as she is named Bafta recipient for outstanding British contribution to cinema

September 2025

  • Amanda Seyfried, centre, in The Testament of Ann Lee.

    The Testament of Ann Lee review – strikingly strange portrait of radically ecstatic Shaker leader

    Amanda Seyfried plays the 18th-century missionary who took her radical message to the New World, in Mona Fastvold’s elusive film

August 2025

  • Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce in The Brutalist.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    The Brutalist to Highest 2 Lowest: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Adrien Brody mesmerises in the Oscar-winning epic, while Spike Lee indulges in a New York love-in with his new crime thriller starring Denzel Washington

July 2025

  • Guy Pearce at the Oscars nominees dinner in February for his role in The Brutalist.

    Film & Music reader interview
    Post your questions for Guy Pearce

    As he stars in hard-hitting prison drama Inside, the candid Aussie actor will answer questions on his 40-year career from Neighbours to The Brutalist

June 2025

  • Exceptional … Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths and Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown.

    Best culture of 2025 so far
    Best films of 2025 in the UK so far

    From a dark and death-haunted classic by Mike Leigh to Tom Cruise’s final highwire stunt and Timothée Chalamet’s brilliant embodiment of Dylan we rewind six months of sensational cinema – in order of their UK release date
  • David Cronenberg.

    David Cronenberg says Brutalist AI controversy was a ‘campaign against’ the film by rival Oscar nominees

    The director was discussing the row over Adrien Brody’s AI-enhanced Hungarian accent, saying ‘we mess with actors’ voices all the time’
  • Daniel Blumberg sitting at his messy kitchen table, on which sits his gleaming Oscar

    ‘I never thought about Oscars’: Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg on the happiness and horror of his big win

    The defiantly anti-commercial musician had walked away from mainstream success twice by his early 20s. Will his Academy Award convince him to embrace Hollywood, celebrity, the big bucks?
  • composite of four images, clockwise from top left: Lucy Liu in Steven Soderbergh’s Presence; Anthony Perkins out the Bates motel in Psycho; ‘boxy conformity’ with Annette Bening in American Beauty; Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in The Lake House.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and the best haunted house films

    The director’s witty supernatural thriller joins Psycho, Hereditary, The Brutalist and more – films in which buildings are characters in their own right
  • a man in a tuxedo holds a trophy as he speaks into a microphone

    Adrien Brody breaks record for longest ever Oscar acceptance speech

  • Emma Brockes

    double quotation markThe main Oscars takeaway? Hollywood is as scared of the world right now as you and I are

    Emma Brockes
  • Queen Latifah backstage at the Oscars, smiling and clapping

    Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats

  • Exterior of Cafe Oto, which has tables outside at which a woman is sitting smoking a cigarette

    Oscar winner’s shoutout for London music venue Cafe Oto stuns owner

  • Oscars 2025 highlights: Anora sweeps awards with best picture, best director and best actress – as it happened

  • Mick Jagger, a sandworm and when Harry re-met Sally: inside the 2025 Oscars ceremony – in pictures

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  • Adrien Brody, winner for best actor, Mikey Madison, winner for best actress, Zoe Saldana, winner of best supporting actress and Kieran Culkin, winner of the best supporting actor in the press room.

    Anora dominates the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress and Adrien Brody wins for The Brutalist

  • Adrien Brody at the Oscar nominees’ reception on 25 February.

    Adrien Brody wins best actor Oscar for The Brutalist

  • Mark Hamill presents Daniel Blumberg with the Oscar for best original score.

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

  • an oscar on display

    What time are the 2025 Oscars?

  • Cynthia Erivo in Wicked, which has taken over $700m worldwide.

    A Wicked shame! In 2025, blockbuster success spells Oscars failure

    The Oz-set blockbuster, plus the Inside Out and Dune sequels, packed out cinemas but won’t win best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards
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