September 26, 2024

Megalopolis reviewThere’s a moment in Francis Ford Coppola’s self-funded, $ 120 million sci-fi passion project where the pillars of society (oversized statues where the life and colour have been drained out of them) literally teeter and crumble to the ground. There’s also a sex scene where Aubrey Plaza’s hilariously named, power-hungry economist Wow Platinum utters the words “I’m oral as hell!”. The whiplash from the wildly differing tones and unsubtle metaphors throughout this futuristic fable about the fall of an imagined New Rome (a green screen New York) are bewildering and yet absolutely intoxicating. There are things that happen in Megalopolis that need to be seen to be believed. Released:
27 September (in cinemas) More details »

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