Megalopolis

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Megalopolis

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Released Sep 27, 2024

2h 18m

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MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel), the mayor's daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.

Critics Consensus

More of a creative manifesto than a cogent narrative feature, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is an overstuffed opus that's equal parts stimulating and slapdash.

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Audience Says

While indisputably MEGA, Coppola’s Megalopolis lacks narrative coherence that its admirers may perceive as art; beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

I love the earnestness, sincerity, and ingenuity behind this... I can't say it's good, but I think people should see it -- and in IMAX to take in the enormity of it all.

Oct 9, 2024

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Adam Kempenaar

Filmspotting

...unabashedly, absurdly theatrical, with boldly unnatural dialogue and performances, ostentatious imagery, and one extended cross-cutting sequence that’s as potent as any Coppola has produced.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 4, 2024

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Johnny Oleksinski

New York Post

A zero-star, wacko disaster...

Rated: 0/4

Oct 4, 2024

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Gemma Creagh

Film Ireland Magazine

Megalopolis is a brave independent exploration of creativity that can be more easily enjoyed when accepted for what it is.

Apr 17, 2025

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Pablo O. Scholz

Clarín

A verbose, bombastic, overloaded and at the same time, yes, fascinating film.[Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/4

Feb 1, 2025

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Michael Nordine

Movie Brief

Megalopolis is chaotic, but it initially feels as though Coppola is in control of it. And then, not unlike a certain empire the filmmaker is obsessed with, cracks start to form and the center can no longer hold.

Rated: 2/4

Jan 17, 2025

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Matt W

Walked out but still found elements of it. Fascinating. Wished I had stayed to the end after a day or two.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/06/25

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G W

I've whitenesses every Coppola film going back to Finian's Rainbow (remake). I have THX1138 on DVD. I wrote a term paper on Coppola's style... FFC is one of my all time favorites. This film is self-indulgent garbage. Possibly the worst Coppola film I've seen. Way way worse than GF-3, even GF-3 Coda. 2 stars because it's FFC..., it'd be 1 if anyone else. 3 hrs of my life I cannot get back. Awful, garbage, dredful.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/08/25

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Stefan S

And this was an incredibly fun, over-the-top movie. It received the loudest ovation from the audience that I've heard this decade.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/17/24

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Omar

Fantastic, everything looked like a Dolce & Gabbana commercial. Acting was stellar including writing, 30 years truly paid off.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/12/24

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chrisc

Watched it to support a large budget original non superhero movie, which may also be the last film from Francis ford Coppola. Interesting concept but it just didn’t come together.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

12/10/24

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Matthew P

C,onfusing. weird. disjointed. and not in the good David Lynch kind of way.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

11/19/24

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Synopsis

MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel), the mayor's daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola, Barry Hirsch, Fred Roos, Michael Bederman
Screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola
Distributor: Lionsgate
Production Co: American Zoetrope
Rating: R (Language|Drug Use|Nudity|Sexual Content|Some Violence)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 27, 2024, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 12, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.4M
Runtime: 2h 18m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital