After months of speculation, the critical book has finally been opened on Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. The early word?
Predominantly positive, with some very high highs and inevitably a few low lows. Below, we run through some of the first reactions.
Deadline’s Damon Wise praised the movie, calling it a “mad modern masterwork that reinvents the possibilities of cinema”. He said the film is “something of a mess; unruly, exaggerated and drawn to pretension like a moth to a flame.
It is also, however, a pretty stunning achievement, the work of a master artist who has taken to Imax like Caravaggio to canvas.
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