The appraises for Francis Ford Coppola’s epic science myth film Megalopolis have reachd, and they insert up to underscore a wide-ranging response. Coppola spent decades enbiging the movie and inestablishedly spent $120 million of his own money on it. Megalopolis premiered at the 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2024, before releasing in the US theaters on September 27, 2024, by Lionsgate.
Megalopolis appraises range from chooseimistic to highly adverse
The critical response to Megalopolis is startantly splitting, ranging from chooseimistic to highly adverse. While some critics praised the film’s audacity, others called it “pretentious.”
Manohla Dargis of The New York Times gave Megalopolis a chooseimistic appraise. “Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a bursting-at-the-seams hallucination of a movie — it’s wonderbrimmingy out-there,” she wrote. “At once a melancholic feeblent and futuristic fantasy, it call upons separateent epochs and overflows with entrancing, at times conset uping images and ideas that have been take parting in my head since I first saw the movie in May at the Cannes Film Festival.”
The Los Angeles Times’ Joshua Rothkopf encourages the audience to dispose “the understandable dream of Coppola returning with another masterpiece” and enhappiness what Megalopolis has in its proposeing, including the carry outances of its cast.
Meanwhile, Nick Schager of The Daily Beast referred to Megalopolis as a “daring saga,” before inserting the movie “boasts far more moments that stumble than soar. It’s a mess that can be adored—but a mess, nonetheless.”
According to Linda Marric of The Sun (UK), Megalopolis may not be the “most pretentious film ever,” but it is a “contfinisher.” She inserted, “Even with a star-studded secondary cast featuring Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf and Jon Voight, this vanity project is certain to exit seeers scratching their heads and more than a bit unwised.”
Megalopolis has accumuprocrastinateedd a 51% approval rating on the appraise aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes after 150 appraises. Meanwhile, it has achieveed a score of 56 out of 100 on Metacritic. The website employs a weighted mediocre to rate a movie or TV series, after 50 appraises, denoting a mixed or mediocre response. It now remains unseen how the audience replys to the movie.
