'The Current War' review: Benedict Cumberbatch's Thomas Edison squares up against Michael Shannon's George Westinghouse. And now we're stuck with the electricity bill.
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Oct 22, 2019
3 minutes
Two years ago at the Toronto International Film Festival, a movie about Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla and, for a climax, the dazzling illumination of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, failed utterly to ignite the movie world.
En route to its premiere, "The Current War" met with more than the usual amount of uber-meddling from distributor Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Company. A few weeks after the Toronto festival, The New York Times published
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