Still processing #Megalopolis, but at tonight's #Cannes premiere I went to the restroom about an hour in because my brain was melting. There was a man leaning against the wall in a way that made me worried he needed a medic. He looked up at me and said, "It's a nightmare."
— Matt Donnelly (@MattDonnelly) May 16, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola's passion project MEGALOPOLIS is a lot of movie, much of it quite bad. But you have to respect the staggering ambition of this epic folly, a mashup of the Roman Empire with modern day New York in chaos. My @THR review from #cannes2024 https://t.co/u4pIw8ohtz
— David Rooney (@DavidCRooney1) May 16, 2024
MEGALOPOLIS is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/GZorwBLMQ8
— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) May 16, 2024
Vive le Francis! On Coppola’s MEGALOPOLIS, the talk of the #Cannes Film Festival so far and a movie I found hilarious, exasperating and finally quite moving in its utter derangement. https://t.co/XadAPW9HR4
— Justin Chang (@JustinCChang) May 17, 2024
Megalopolis: the silliness is a feature, not a bug! a garish, epic, & utterly singular $120 million self-portrait that's also a fable about the fall of ancient Rome & a plea to save our civilization (and its cinema) from itself. big fan.
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) May 16, 2024
my #cannes review https://t.co/fA6Wy3kiJN pic.twitter.com/VWEQCmNjh4
"The gates of #Megalopolis are open and the world will never be the same" - Part fever dream, part excercise in indulgence, not since BABYLON has such bonkers boldness been birthed, here reared without any pesky studio help. A cri de Cœur about a dying empire, the death rattle of… pic.twitter.com/IybbYLtORz
— Jason Gorber (@filmfest_ca) May 16, 2024
It's sad to say, but of course MEGALOPOLIS is a complete mess. Studios screw up and we can all dunk on them, but they aren't all completely stupid. The fact that not a single one bit on distributing this movie isn't a conspiracy theory. pic.twitter.com/enNbpSeBpp
— EmpireCity Box Office (@EmpireCityBO) May 17, 2024