Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, which the legendary, multi-Oscar-winning filmmaker has been working on in some form or fashion for the better part of 40 years, is a great, sprawling folly'”a film of such simultaneous ambition and foolhardiness that it is hard to separate where one begins and the other ends. I have not seen a film so simultaneously serious and silly since Richard Kelly's Southland Tales (2006), which was also a grandiose science-fiction epic that combined interpersonal drama, politics, and immense world-building in an alternate United States of the near future. However, while Kelly's film was fueled by ... Read More