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Megalopolis

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Megalopolis

2024

Francis Ford Coppola

Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza ...

4.8

2,514

Sci-Fi. Drama A Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"'Megalopolis' is positively awe-inspiring in some places and an absolute eyesore in others, until you pull back and try to take it all in"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A clunky, garish, and transcendently sincere manifesto about the role of an artist at the end of an empire. It doesn't just speak to Coppola's philosophy, it embodies it to its bones"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboring (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Damon Wise Deadline	"Coppola’s mad modern masterwork reinvents the possibilities of cinema. (...) Megalopolis is something of a mess; unruly, exaggerated and drawn to pretension like a moth to a flame. It is also, however, a pretty stunning achievement"
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"It's windy and overstuffed, frequently baffling and way too talky. But it's also often amusing, playful, visually dazzling and illuminated by a touching hope for humanity"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"Megalopolis Is a Passion Project Gone Horribly Wrong (...) Maybe some cinephiles will see value in the Godfather director’s long-gestating epic. Many more, though, will be left scratching their heads"
		Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"A work of absolute madness. (...) Megalopolis might be the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy every single batshit second of it".
		Joshua Rothkopf Los Angeles Times	"Once you let go of the understandable dream of Coppola returning with another masterpiece, there is much to enjoy in 'Megalopolis', especially its cast members"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Megalopolis' is stymied by arbitrary plotting and numbing excess"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"It was worth the wait (...) Coppola is filling both the screen and the narrative of Megalopolis to their very brims"
		Jason Gorber AV Club	"A magical, meandering, maddening epic. Francis Ford Coppola’s cri de coeur to a dying empire is batshit crazy. (...) it seems deeply nonsensical and in desperate need of some outside perspective to reshape it in slightly more agreeable ways".
		Chase Hutchinson Collider	"The film is like the building being built: interesting in theory though not in execution"
		James Mottram Radio Times	"If this is to be Coppola's last movie, he goes out as a true artist who pursued his vision to the very end (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Esther Zuckerman The Daily Beast	"Many will find it uproarious, others may locate some profundity, most will have to shake their heads. Whatever it is, it's a lot"
		Maureen Lee Lenker Entertainment Weekly	"The film may be set in the future but its views on sexuality, men and women, and power are hopelessly stuck in the past"
		Patrice Witherspoon Screen Rant	"Chaos swarms the senses in Francis Ford Coppola's transcendental delight (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"An epic of ambition and imagination, [and] also a magnificent mess of a masterpiece, as irredeemably silly as it is sincerely sublime"
		John Serba Decider	"The biggest issue here is Coppola’s battle against an invisible foe: coherence"
		John Nugent Empire	"85-year-old Francis Ford Coppola has rarely been as audacious (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Andrew Webster The Verge	"For all of its good intentions, 'Megalopolis' is a confusing, bloated disaster"
		Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"We are lucky to have 'Megalopolis'"

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