I’ve been a Brutalist hater for several weeks now, and am certainly as dug into this viewpoint as Matt Walsh is….”a long monotonous journey into the void,” you bet.
That said, Walsh’s statement that “there is no valid excuse for a film to be three and a half hours long” is ignorant and (no offense) forehead-slap embarassing. A few Vulture staffers spelled this out on 1.12.25. No excellent movie is too long, and no awful, punishing, “give me some heroin so I can get through this” movie is too short.
