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\u201cThe Brutalist\u201d won some of the top prizes at Sunday night\u2019s Golden Globes<\/a>, taking home the awards for best drama<\/a>, best director and best actor in a drama. But it is exceptionally difficult for people to watch the story of the fictional Hungarian architect L\u00e1szl\u00f3 T\u00f3th, played by Adrien Brody<\/a>, who tries to realize his grand vision in postwar America.<\/p>\n Other contenders this awards season, like Netflix\u2019s \u201cEmilia P\u00e9rez,\u201d which won several Golden Globes<\/a>, have comfortable homes on streaming services for audiences to watch at their leisure. \u201cThe Brutalist,\u201d which is distributed by A24 and has a three-and-a-half-hour run time (including a 15-minute onscreen intermission), is accessible only in a few theaters.<\/p>\n The movie will not release nationwide until Jan. 17 before expanding to a wider release on Jan. 24, said a person with knowledge of A24\u2019s distribution plans.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t live in Los Angeles or New York, your chances of seeing the film before then are, well, brutal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Even in those cities, which often have theatrical releases before the rest of the country, the options to watch are limited. Screenings are currently scheduled<\/a> at three theaters in New York and five in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n You may find some luck at art house cinemas across the country. Viewers in Doylestown, Pa., a major setting in \u201cThe Brutalist,\u201d can soon drive to Philadelphia for two screening options at art houses. Beginning on Thursday, large theater chains will also begin screenings in Austin, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco and Washington.<\/p>\n (And if you happen to be an Oscars voter who needs to catch up before the period for nominations begins on Wednesday, \u201cThe Brutalist\u201d is on your screener app.)<\/p>\n Not yet. While A24 has a deal with Warner Bros. to make Max the streaming home for its releases, there has been no announcement for the date when \u201cThe Brutalist\u201d will come to the platform. The wait to watch at home may be a while, considering how long it has taken other A24 movies to arrive on Max: Alex Garland\u2019s \u201cCivil War,\u201d<\/a> released theatrically in April 2024, only made its way to streaming by September.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Brutalist,\u201d which was directed by Brady Corbet, received a limited theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles on Dec. 20, a tested strategy to help critical darlings build their appeal with mass audiences. \u201cParasite,\u201d which won best picture<\/a> at the Academy Awards in 2020, opened at three theaters<\/a> before hitting a peak of 2,001 theaters in the weeks after the Oscars. (By comparison, the blockbuster \u201cDeadpool & Wolverine\u201d<\/a> opened in 4,210 theaters in July.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In New York and Los Angeles, only two theaters screen \u201cThe Brutalist\u201d with its intended 70-millimeter film format, the analog presentation that matches the midcentury VistaVision camera technology used to shoot the film in high resolution and with a wide field of view to capture its expansive architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s closest analogue to \u201cThe Brutalist\u201d is probably Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cOppenheimer,\u201d another midcentury \u201cgreat man\u201d drama whose run time also hit the three-hour mark. But \u201cOppenheimer,\u201d which won the best picture Oscar<\/a>, opened in thousands of theaters and catapulted to summer-blockbuster status thanks in part to the box office lift of the \u201cBarbenheimer\u201d phenomenon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fernanda Torres<\/a> won a Golden Globe for best actress in a drama for her performance in \u201cI\u2019m Still Here,\u201d about a family torn apart by a military junta that ruled Brazil for decades. Other than film festival attendees and awards voters, few in the United States have seen \u201cI\u2019m Still Here,\u201d which releases in New York and Los Angeles on Jan. 17.<\/p>\n \u201cNickel Boys,\u201d<\/a> a critically acclaimed adaptation of Colson Whitehead\u2019s novel about an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida, has also been difficult to access. The movie, directed by RaMell Ross<\/a> and distributed by Amazon MGM Studios, opened in mid-December but is still in fewer than 20 theaters and has no official streaming release date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhere can I watch \u2018The Brutalist\u2019?<\/h2>\n
Is \u2018The Brutalist\u2019 streaming?<\/h2>\n
Why is \u2018The Brutalist\u2019 in so few theaters?<\/h2>\n
What other awards-season movies are elusive?<\/h2>\n