RottenTomatoes Movie Reviews – Sept 28, 2024
Susan GrangerSSG SyndicateRotten score.
Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project is a futuristic fable about the downfall of the American Empire…a 40-year endeavor that turns out to be illogical and incoherent.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 28, 2024
John UrbancichJMuviesRotten score.
The allegedly advanced gobbledygook handed out here obviously pales in comparison to the delicious gobagool that Coppola served up in legendary films such as his first two “Godfather” deliveries.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 28, 2024
Dan ScullyScullyVisionFresh score.
It’s one of few narrative features that reaches the sublime heights of “pure cinema.”
Full Review | Sep 28, 2024
Jack MartinFilm FeederRotten score.
There is but one hope that can finally bring us together as a species: the fact that absolutely nobody in their right, sane mind can make heads or tails as to whatever in the hell Megalopolis is trying to do.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 28, 2024
Lupe Rodriguez HaasCineMovie.tvRotten score.
Coppola delivers a grandiose spectacle, unfortunately without the substance. However, when Shia LeBeouf and Aubrey Plaza appear, they bring life to the movie as provocateurs and comic relief.
Full Review | Original Score: C- | Sep 28, 2024
Abby OlceseThe PitchFresh score.
It is a deeply indulgent work with a premise and perspective nobody was asking for. It also contains moments of staggering vision that you could probably only try if you self-financed a film for $120 million and nobody could tell you “no.”
Full Review | Sep 28, 2024
Micheal ComptonBowling Green Daily NewsRotten score.
While one can appreciate the ambition and Coppola’s desire to swing for the fences, Megalopolis is ultimately an infield pop up at best, an overstuffed saga with moments of potential smothered by waves of pretentiousness.
Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Sep 28, 2024
TOP CRITICFresh score.
“Megalopolis” is an experience more than it’s a movie, and as an experience, it’s unforgettable.
Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 28, 2024
Eric MarchenRogers TVFresh score.
What makes the movie entertaining is a lack of self-awareness. It’s earnestly singular, attempting to say something prescient and insightful to docile filmgoers fed conventionality.
Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 27, 2024
Mario AlegrePróxima TandaRotten score.
If you ever wondered what it would have been like to see Fritz Lang’s Metropolis or D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance when they first came out, Megalopolis offers you a glimpse to the past. It’s a mess, but a fascinating one. [Full Review in Spanish]
Full Review | Sep 27, 2024
Adam OlingerAdam Does Movies (YouTube)Rotten score.
Megalopolis is the sci-fi movie equivalent of CATS.
Full Review | Sep 27, 2024
Charles Lyons-BurtSpectrum CultureFresh score.
The world Coppola conjures, messily ridden with more ideas that he and his collaborators can quite keep a lid on, is rich and inspired nonetheless.
Full Review | Sep 27, 2024
M.V. MoorheadLess Hat, MoorheadFresh score.
I kind of hated this movie, and I also kind of loved it… A half-hour or so in, I was starting to squirm, thinking this could be a really punishing disaster. Very gradually, however, a story begins to take shape that we can invest in.
Full Review | Sep 27, 2024
Thom GeierAARP Movies for GrownupsRotten score.
This puzzling film, in the tradition of the Roman Colosseum, will leave you longing for less circus and more bread.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 27, 2024
Katie WalshTribune News Service
TOP CRITICRotten score.
The film alternates between looking like a generic car commercial and an art deco sci-fi fantasy. The dialogue is either cartoonishly overwrought or hilariously lowbrow, and the film swings wildly between these various poles at a dizzying pace.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 27, 2024
Chad ByrnesLA Weekly/Village VoiceRotten score.
It’s painful on a truly impressive level.
Full Review | Sep 27, 2024
Joseph RobinsonFish Jelly Films (YouTube)Rotten score.
My thoughts on Megalopolis can be summed up with a Dorian Corey quote, “shade is I don’t tell you you’re ugly, but I don’t have to tell you because you know you’re ugly.”
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 27, 2024
Grace RandolphBeyond the TrailerFresh score.
It’s wonderful to see Coppola experimenting with film. While The Hunger Games is for young adults, Megalopolis expands on a lot of the same themes but for grown ups. More like going to a modern art exhibit than the movie theater, which is thrilling.
Full Review | Sep 27, 2024
Dylan AdamsonIn Review OnlineFresh score.
As the images split, dissolve, and accumulate, one glimpses the true multiplicity of Megalopolis: not the sleek epiphany it wishes to cast off, but the beleaguered dog of a half century of ink, sweat, and tears.
Full Review | Sep 27, 2024
TOP CRITICRotten score.
Dramatically and philosophically speaking, Megalopolis barely coheres. It seems unrealized even in its unlikely realization, still more of a glowing idea of a movie than the movie itself.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 27, 2024
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