When Lionsgate released the second trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's epic film "Megalopolis" on Wednesday morning, it kicked off a series of screenings of his previous work by several renowned critics.

In quotes attributed to their reviews of "The Godfather," the trailer quotes Pauline Kael of The New Yorker calling the film "diminished by its artistry" and Andrew Sarris of the Village Voice criticizing the "sloppy, self-absorbed film." Other quotes from critics including Roger Ebert, John Simon, Stanley Kauffmann, Vincent Canby and Rex Reed flash across the screen in similar fashion, harshly criticizing Coppola's work on masterpieces like "Apocalypse Now." The idea is that those films have stood the test of time — their initial reactions, not so much. "Megalopolis," which premiered at Cannes, was dismissed by many critics as self-indulgent and muddled. The new trailer is intended to position Coppola's latest film as a work of art that will age well, just like the famed director's predecessors.

It’s an interesting point to make, but there’s a pretty big hole in the trailer’s argument. The problem, and it’s a pretty big problem, is that these quotes don’t actually appear in any of the reviews cited. As Vulture notes and Variety verified, none of the sentences appear in any of the versions of the stories available online. It’s unclear at this point where the quotes come from. Ebert’s quote calling “Dracula” a “triumph of style over substance” actually comes from his 1989 review of “Batman.”

Owen Gleiberman of Variety is incorrectly quoted as calling the 1992 film “Bram Stoker's Dracula” “a beautiful mess” and highlighting its “absurdity” when he reviewed the film for Entertainment Weekly, where he worked at the time of the film's release.