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“What makes László the more interesting character is that, however stubborn and exacting his judgments, he doesn’t allow genius or hubris to define him. Nor can he be reduced to his addiction, his war trauma, his love for his wife, his devotion to Judaism, or his uncertainty—as other Jews flock to Israel—about where that devotion begins and ends. When you think back on “The Brutalist,” it is not László’s arrogance but his thoughtfulness that is likely to stick with you—that, and the soft lilt in his hard scrape of a voice, like a cushion laid over gravel.”