Tesla
critic Reviews
, 58% Rotten Tomatometer Score- Appropriately bold and ambitious, Tesla takes a number of risks that don't always pay off -- but Ethan Hawke's performance makes those flaws easier to forgive.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRandy MyersSan Jose Mercury News
Almereyda’s wildly creative Nikola Tesla biopic...defies conventions...
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreClarisse LoughreyIndependent (UK)
The biopic is an impossible art. You either bore your audience or reduce your subject to a mere collection of ideas and symbols.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreWendy IdeObserver (UK)
It won't spark for everyone but I found it intriguing and unexpected.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreEllen E JonesGuardian
To watch Tesla the film is to admire its ambition while regretting its follies. Much like Tesla the man, perhaps?
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreChristy LemireFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
It's definitely not for everyone, but I liked this so much more than just a by-the-numbers biopic.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAngie HanFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Someone as brilliant and creative as Tesla surely deserves a biopic that is not afraid to be unconventional or to swing for the fences, but in practice this just did not work for me at all.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreDave GianniniInSession Film
So, is Tesla a bad movie? No, you can certainly do worse. Plus, accomplished actors Hawke and MacLachlan carry it across the mediocre finish line. Is it a good movie, though? Definitely not.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreBethan AckerleyNew Scientist
The film rarely finds the will to be interested in the man Tesla actually was. Coupled with its incoherent – if striking – aesthetic, this means Tesla too often feels like an empty frame, or a motor without the power to keep it running.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreVadim RizovFilmmaker Magazine
With its time almost up, Tesla suddenly snaps into sharp emotional focus, and the subsequent epilogue clarified this often-mysterious movie’s agenda—as an emotional way to process aging, failure, missed opportunities and death, much more my speed...
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreM.N. MillerReady Steady Cut
if you are looking for a film that explores Tesla’s drive and the meaning of his existence to today’s modern world, and the absurdity of it all, Tesla is the film for you.
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