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Below, what critics who sat through a conversation about Voights (characters) erection thought aboutMegalopolis.

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There is nothing inMegalopolisthat feels like something out of a normal movie.

It has its own logic and cadence and vernacular.

At one point, Adam Driver does the entire To be or not to be soliloquy fromHamlet.

Im not exactly sure.

But it sure sounds good.

It is a true modern masterwork of the kind that outrages with its sheer audacity.

The U.S. empire, like the Roman empire, like any empire, cant last forever.

Has Americas decline-and-fall moment arrived?

Peter Bradshaw,The Guardian

This is the kind of movie that will live on in midnight screenings.

It doesnt just speak to Coppolas philosophy, it embodies it to its bones.

The truth is its all those things.

Jason Gorber,AV Club

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