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Its safe to say that few directors have had as eclectic a career as Francis Ford Coppola's. After graduating from USCs prestigious film school, he became a household name with The Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now. His run in the 1970s is maybe as strong a streak as a director has ever had, and while his career took a downturn in the following decade thanks to financial problems, his name alone is still enough to get people to pay attention.

Case in point his three-decade-long, self-financed passion project, Megalopolis, is finally hitting theaters. As with most of Coppolas late-period work, the reception has been largely polarized. Already, its reigniting debates over whether Coppola has lost his Midas touch, but regardless of how one feels...