New Delhi, March 2 -- In a short epilogue, The Brutalist finally shows us Laszló Toth's buildings. Brady Corbet's film presents as a given that Toth is a genius architect of the Bauhaus school, but we are only shown one of his creations-a library-in full right up till the final 10 minutes. The format in which they're presented is strange: a showreel for a biennale that looks like it's shot on cheap video, with cheesy transitions. A film with startling pristine images spends its last moments looking like DTV.

It's a strange end to the film - and that's without even getting into the whole Israel of it all. The Brutalist hits you several times with shots of roads and rail tracks zipping by, as seen from the front of a car or train. If ...