The 215-minute, Oscar-tipped epic that could save Hollywood – if we let it

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