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Film Review - Megalopolis

Film Review - Megalopolis

A pretentious bore from Francis Ford Coppola

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Sep 28, 2024
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The emperor has no clothes. That’s pretty much all you need to know about Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited Megalopolis. Thematically linked to Fritz Lang’s silent sci-fi classic Metropolis (1927), this meandering, self-important bore of a film gives ammunition to the theory that the real Coppola was murdered in 1980…

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