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‘Megalopolis’: What The Critics Are Saying
Francis Ford Coppola's dystopian epic stars Adam Driver,
Rolling Stone’s David Fear called the film “truly epic”: “So long as there are people who love movies that are actually about things, and think about the past 6000 years of human civilization, there is an audience for this.” Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson echoed that theme, with the brand noting in its headline: “Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis Is a Passion Project Gone Horribly Wrong”, before continuing, “Maybe some cinephiles will see value in the Godfather director’s long-gestating epic. 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.
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