Megadoc
Utopia | Release Date: September 19, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennySep 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
81
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiAug 28, 2025
Megadoc, whether it’s showing all there is to show or not, is a fascinating exposé of a filmmaker who risked everything so nobody could shoot down his ideas, only to shoot himself in the foot in the process. Read full review
80
ColliderRoss BonaimeSep 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
80
The Daily BeastNick SchagerSep 18, 2025
A look at Coppola’s creative process that proves significantly more illuminating and entertaining than the director’s finished product. Read full review
80
The New YorkerRichard BrodySep 15, 2025
A fascinating, inspiring view of a filmmaker whose methods are as boldly original as his movie. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 31, 2025
I still can’t be convinced that Megalopolis is anything other than an (honourable) failure. But Figgis’s documentary is an absorbing success. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonAug 28, 2025
By depicting Coppola simply as a diligent director at work, Megadoc is ennobling without being hagiographic. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 28, 2025
Like the man who made it, Megalopolis is a movie that bears both the qualities and the scars of these conflicts. We probably didn’t need Megadoc to tell us this, but it remains a thoroughly fascinating look at one of the most unlikely films ever made. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerAug 28, 2025
Megalopolis, the film, may not be lots of fun to sit through, but its making-of, Megadoc, is a blast, offering a rare inside glimpse at a major movie artist at work. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineClayton DillardSep 6, 2025
Mike Figgis’s anthem of aspiration and struggle leaves no doubt about Francis Ford Coppola’s beliefs. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichAug 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
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 23, 2025
In the end, it’s inspiring to see a director of Coppola’s stature back at work, and better this than some impersonal job for hire. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureJosh ParhamSep 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
67
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerSep 25, 2025
While Figgis gets this extraordinary and unrestricted access, there’s a real question about what he does with it. Coppola is infamous for finding his films in the edit, but it’s hard to see that Figgis found that much more than he had in the camera. Read full review
67
The Film StageDavid KatzAug 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
63
ObserverSiddhant AdlakhaSep 15, 2025
Megadoc is a mood piece and a process piece, shot up close with lo-fi video equipment, but it’s never allowed to probe deeply enough. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenSep 23, 2025
Figgis gets moments of real tension and genuine behind-the-scenes drama, but is also too respectful and admiring of Coppola, understandably so, to push his own inquiry to its limits. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesSep 19, 2025
The documentary becomes a reasonably engaging if unpolished account of a legendary filmmaker’s most quixotic pursuit. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 28, 2025
It’s an engaging, sometimes touching, slightly narrow depiction of a great filmmaker in the winter of his career who’s intent on somehow recapturing the spring of it. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherSep 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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