Megadoc

Name: Megadoc
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 19, 2025
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 73

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Utopia | Release Date: September 19, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: A raw, fly-on-the-wall documentary about Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long journey in creating his self-financed passion project, Megalopolis. The bold and unrelenting epic returns in Mike Figgis’ portrait of Coppola’s creative process – weaving together archival material, unfiltered cast interviews, and a close-up view of how theA raw, fly-on-the-wall documentary about Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long journey in creating his self-financed passion project, Megalopolis. The bold and unrelenting epic returns in Mike Figgis’ portrait of Coppola’s creative process – weaving together archival material, unfiltered cast interviews, and a close-up view of how the legendary filmmaker drew from Roman history, political allegory, and his own singular vision to shape the world of Megalopolis. This isn’t a record of a production on the brink, it’s a personal memoir unfolding in real time. [Utopia]… Expand

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 107 min

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RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Sep 19, 2025

Watching Coppola land on his head and then pick himself back up again and point himself at another brick wall is ultimately strangely inspiring. Read full review

Richard Brody

Sep 15, 2025

A fascinating, inspiring view of a filmmaker whose methods are as boldly original as his movie. Read full review

Collider Ross Bonaime

Sep 22, 2025

Figgis’ Megadoc is an engrossing look at one of the biggest pet projects of all time, a film that lived in Coppola’s brain for so long and struggled to come to life on the screen effectively. Megadoc shows that while it's great to bring your passion to life, sometimes, it wasn't meant to be. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Aug 28, 2025

Megalopolis is one of those movies that feels like it offers an accurate window behind the scenes of its own creation process, and Megadoc confirms as much without ever becoming redundant. Read full review

Next Best Picture Josh Parham

Sep 19, 2025

Sections of this story are missing to give an even broader context, and that means the more powerful message of what really went into making this picture ultimately is muted. However, for anyone who looked upon this enormous undertaking and wanted a bit more information, there is plenty here to satisfy. Read full review

The Film Stage David Katz

Aug 28, 2025

MEGADOC elaborates on what we’ve learned from the clearly partial and biased trade reporting that documented its production. Yet it also isn’t a corrective to that run of media revelations; just by visualizing the mayhem that made Megalopolis can we see that those articles (in the Hollywood Reporter especially) didn’t arise from nowhere. Read full review

The Times Kevin Maher

Sep 6, 2025

Far too much time is spent with the tedious off-camera histrionics of the brattish co-star Shia LaBeouf, and the admission that Figgis was hand-chosen (“invited”) by Coppola for the documentary renders it slightly toothless. Read full review

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