Anytime a movie is over two-and-a-half hours I have to brace myself. I know I’m in for a long haul, and a lot of the time, I dread it. In fact, sometimes it can make me put off seeing a film. There’s no denying a long runtime like this can make or break a movie. So, when I saw one of the best movies of 2024 , The Brutalist, I was overwhelmed by its three-and-a-half-hour runtime and I was dreading seeing it. Thankfully, though, there was an intermission halfway through, and experiencing that showed me why all long movies need...