Megalopolis (2024). I get why folks bounced hard off this but it worked for me in the end. The Zardoz of 2024 in all that implies, its ambitions inseparable from its failures, and by allowing itself to get ridiculous and exhausting it leaves room for moments of sublime beauty and emotion.

Aubrey Plaza is Wow Platinum

Also Jon Voight shoots Shia Laboef in the butt.

fuuuuuck ZARDOZ is a great touch point, completely jealous I didn't think of that I'd been calling it Richard Kelly's THE FOUNTAINHEAD (complimentary)