Megalopolis

"Coppola’s bold, ungainly epic crams in half a dozen stars and decades’ worth of ideas."

"A head-wrecking abomination."

"A full-body sci-fi sensory bath of a movie."

"A folly that's not without a certain fascination."

"Juicy and weird."

"Flashes of humour cannot rescue this conspiracy thriller from awful acting and dull effects."

"(It) might be the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy every single batshit second of it."

"It’s nearly impossible to digest in a single, baffling viewing."

"If you don’t enjoy the first five minutes than gird your loins. It’s like that all the way through."

"A magnificent mess of a masterpiece, as irredeemably silly as it is sincerely sublime."

"Exactly what movies can and should be—unflinchingly earnest."

"Stylish, sometimes inspired and quite bonkers."

"A messy, self-indulgent sprawl of ideas - in the best way possible."

"Perhaps the kindest thing one can say... is that it will probably remain largely unwatched and be quickly forgotten."

"A celebration of unfettered creativity and farsightedness."

"Very occasionally, you get the kind of soaring Shakespearean feeling that the very best dramas have."

"It's certainly loopy enough to build a cult following. But (it) will test the patience of everyone else."

"A film that, at times, feels geared towards skull-numbing boredom, while equally capable of rewriting one’s mind, body and soul."

"This isn’t the car crash it could have been. It is, though, deeply flawed and very eccentric."

"Bewildering but brazenly one from the heart."

"Each performance seems to come from a different movie."

"Bloated and unforgivably dull."

"That the director spent 40 years trying to make this worthless, 138-minute hot mess shocks me to no end."

"Less a cohesive train of thought than a disastrous cinematic derailment."

"Francis Ford Coppola’s grand vision is quite the mess."