Review: Megalopolis

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis reaches for artistic grandeur but gets lost in its own surreal, bloated ambitions.

Welcome to New Rome, where the rich and corrupt fight for power and prestige while the poor and desperate live off the scraps. This fictional metropolis — part New York, part ancient Rome, with its emperors and senators — is the setting for Francis Ford Coppola’s latest epic, Megalopolis. It’s a story about how humanity’s quest for power and fame turns …